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OpenGL 1.4 Unveiled
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) and a group of other major players in the computer graphics industry have released the latest specification for the OpenGL application programming interface, OpenGL 1.4. SGI and Nokia also said that they are planning to work...
[July 16, 2002, 15:35]
SGI OpenGL Shader Level-of-Detail White Paper
White Papers In this paper, SGI introduces level-of-detail shaders (LOD shaders) to solve the problem of providing both interactive performance and convincing detailed shading of many objects in a scene. A level-of-detail shader automatically adjusts the...
[September 29, 2003, 0:00]
Jumping Into JOGL
White Papers Announced in July 2003, the partnership of Sun and SGI to provide Java bindings to OpenGL gave a jolt to the Java community, particularly to desktop, graphics, and game developers. While some were disappointed to see Sun back away from Java3D...
[December 15, 2006, 23:00]
3D Graphics World Shaken By Patent Claims
News OpenGL, a widely used cross-platform graphics standard, may be subject to more restrictive licensing following recent claims by Microsoft that it owns patents to technology critical to the specification.
[July 11, 2002, 16:14]
Imagination Updates Mobile 3D Chip
News UK-based Imagination Technologies is to support the OpenGL ES standard in its graphics-acceleration hardware for mobile phones, making it easier for developers to create 3D applications and games for mobile devices, the company said on Monday.
[February 25, 2004, 13:50]
NVIDIA And The Celestia Program: A Window Into The Universe
White Papers SGI OpenGL functionality provided basic capabilities for building the visualization solution, but Chris wanted to maximize visual clarity and give users the best possible views of the existing data. Reliability also became a challenge, as Chris...
[July 4, 2007, 0:00]
Macworld Expo: Apple Goes After Gamers
News At Macworld Expo 99 in the US yesterday, Apple said it's taking a series of steps to lure game makers and players back to the Mac -- including committing to Silicon Graphics Inc.s OpenGL 3-D graphics standard and incorporating faster graphics...
[January 6, 1999, 10:18]
PCs To Get Silicon Graphics 3D Savvy
News Under terms of the deal, licensees will gain access to SGI's OpenGL API, previously used only by technical workstations. OpenGL is an important 3D graphics standard for visual computing and it will greatly facilitate the flow of workstation...
[March 24, 1997, 11:31]
A Year Ago: PCs To Get Silicon Graphics 3D Savvy
News Under terms of the deal, licensees will gain access to SGI's OpenGL API, previously used only by technical workstations. OpenGL is an important 3D graphics standard for visual computing and it will greatly facilitate the flow of workstation...
[March 24, 1998, 6:00]
NVidia Launches Linux Drivers
News Last year, however, nVidia started releasing OpenGL-compatible drivers that work across various platforms, including Linux. These drivers were the fruits of a collaboration effort with SGI, which created the OpenGL standard, used widely by games...
[September 6, 2001, 13:22]
Mobiles To Get PowerVR 3D This Year
News Imagination is showing off PowerVR-based products at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and later on Thursday will announce support for the OpenGL ES programming interface in PowerVR MBX products.
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
Jobs: Final Mac OS X Held Until 2001
News DP4 also includes a fully Carbonised pre-release version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 browser and comes with a full implementation of OpenGL and Java 2. Jobs cautioned that the implementation of the OpenGL 3D API wasn't yet "fully tuned" but...
[May 16, 2000, 9:08]
Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users
Talkback or going through the DirectX>OpenGL wrapper. ID Software does its games in OpenGL, so most of them run 'natively' - so do many of Blizzard's latest titles with -opengl option. Back to our scheduled Wine comments.
[March 6, 2005, 22:24]
Linux Picking Up Its Game
News By early summer the open-source community plans to have finished both Version 2.4 of the Linux kernel and Version 4.0 of the Linux graphics system, known as Xfree86, adding better support for 3-D graphics hardware as well as two new technologies...
[February 4, 2000, 7:26]
ATI Puts 3D In Mobile Phones
News The Imageon line supports the OpenGL ES programming interface for rendering 3D, a subset of the OpenGL API used in the PC world. Graphics chipmaker ATI is jumping into the handheld market with a new line of processors aimed at mobile phones, it...
[January 7, 2004, 16:35]
3DLabs Eyes PC Graphics Comeback
News The chip will still support the standard OpenGL and DirectX libraries of graphics programming instructions, but developers who want to do their own programming to squeeze out extra performance can go to town, Schimpf said.
[May 4, 2002, 7:31]
News Schmooze: Tech Industry Gets Re-stated
News Microsoft doesn't really have any reason to destroy OpenGL, the cross-platform graphics API used by Doom and Quake, but signs are that it might try to do so anyway -- like the scorpion stinging the frog and then drowning, as the story goes.
[July 12, 2002, 11:11]
PalmSource Teams With Nvidia On Graphics
News ATI launched its own mobile 3D offering, the Imageon 2300 line of graphics processors, in January, and said those chips will support OpenGL ES. Nvidia recently joined the Khronos Group, the standards body behind OpenGL ES, as did ETRI, Futuremark...
[February 12, 2004, 11:10]
Nvidia NV30 Pursues Raw Speed
News Programmability has emerged as a major theme in the graphics world, with Microsoft and the backers of OpenGL racing to add programmable features into the two dominant graphics APIs (application programming interfaces).
[October 8, 2002, 16:40]
Power And Quality
Member Review Powerful, top notch build quality, 3 year warranty, fantastic keyboard, great OpenGL support from FireGL. Had this machine a while. Having compared this to top end Sony's and Dell's it wins hands down.
[November 28, 2003, 10:35]
