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Sun OpenGL API for Solaris software is a 3D graphics application programming interface (API) based on the OpenGL industry-standard specification for developing interactive 3D graphics applications on the Solaris platform¹. It provides graphics software developers a complete set of graphics functions for defining, rendering, and animating 3D models. It incorporates a broad set of powerful visualization and imaging extensions such as 3D texture mapping support, multitexturing, and imaging operations.

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Most current version	The current version is 1.5
Other shipping releases	The previous available version is 1.2.3.

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Sun Multi-Display Utilities, version 1.0

The Sun Multi-Display Utilities (MDU) library is a utility library written in the C programming language on top of the OpenGL API for Solaris and X Window System APIs. The goal of the Sun Multi-Display Utilities is to make it simple to transition single-threaded, single-screen C and C++ Sun OpenGL for Solaris programs into scalable multithreaded, multiscreen OpenGL programs with only minor source code modifications.

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	GLUT is an utility toolkit for writing OpenGL programs.

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This page is located at: http://www.sun.com/software/graphics/opengl/1.2.3/index.xml

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Solaris platform: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/