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OpenGL is an open source, cross-platform graphics library which is constantly argued to be better or worse than [[Direct3D]], a Windows-only graphics development.
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OpenGL is an open, cross-platform graphics specification which competes with Microsoft's [[Direct3D]], which is only natively available on Windows. Various implementations exist, open-source and not, and it is available for many languages other than [[C]] and [[C_Plus_Plus|C++]] as libraries.
 
 
OpenGL is commonly used in [[C_Plus_Plus|C++]], however, several other languages use it.
 
  
 
It is also the standard graphics toolkit for [[GNU/Linux|Linux-based]] operating systems.
 
It is also the standard graphics toolkit for [[GNU/Linux|Linux-based]] operating systems.

Revision as of 15:44, 26 September 2009

OpenGL is an open, cross-platform graphics specification which competes with Microsoft's Direct3D, which is only natively available on Windows. Various implementations exist, open-source and not, and it is available for many languages other than C and C++ as libraries.

It is also the standard graphics toolkit for Linux-based operating systems.


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