Developed and maintained by an independent consortium, the OpenGL Architecture Review Board; broad industry support including Sun, IBM, HP, SGI, Apple, Intel and Dell.
Highly Portable
Source code compatibility; wide application deployment across all popular desktop and server platforms; consistent visual display results on different hardware platforms regardless of operating systems or windowing systems.
Comprehensive Features, High Visual Quality, High Performance
Allow developers to create interactive 3D applications serving diverse markets such as: CAD/CAM/CAE, computer animation, games, medical imaging, visual simulations, virtual reality, digital content creation.
Well Defined, Forward Looking Interface
Backward compatibility requirements ensure existing applications do not become obsolete.
Scalability
OpenGL-based applications can run on systems ranging from PDAs, desktops, to enterprise servers and supercomputers.
Cube Map Texture
Provides a new texture generation scheme for reflection mapping using six texture images.
Multitexture
Enables multiple textures to be applied to a primitive in a single rendering pass; provide more sophisticated texturing effects.
Multisample
Enables full scene antialiasing for high quality rendering.
