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OpenGL

OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics... Created by Khronos Group

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OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API), bringing thousands of applications to a wide variety of computer platforms. OpenGL fosters innovation and speeds application development by incorporating a broad set of rendering, texture mapping, special effects, and other powerful visualization functions. Developers can leverage the power of OpenGL across all popular desktop and workstation platforms, ensuring wide application deployment.... More Info »

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OpenGL was added by InvisGhost in Apr 2010 and the latest update was made in Jul 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Feb 2016 There is a history of all activites on OpenGL in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on OpenGL or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Project64 (Nintendo 64 emulator) with the Glide64 video plugin (which uses OpenGL) playing Super Mario 64.

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Vulkan

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and...
- Because Vulkan is OpenGL's successor. Guest • Feb 2018
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WebGL

WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object...

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Microsoft DirectX

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Allegro

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GDI

GDI++.dll is a replacement for the Windows default font rasterizer, which gives you a better font-smoothing capability, just like Mac OS X. Note: It runs as a...
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Mantle

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Crystal Space

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- Crystal Space is a software using 3D rendering/drawing APIs. OpenGL is a rendering/drawing API. Guest • Feb 2018
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