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https://www.khronos.org/news/events/gdc-2017
* **Download OpenGL** https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Getting_Started#Downloading_OpenGL
Download OpenGL * Getting Started with OpenGL https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Getting_Started
Download links for OpenGL developers and OpenGL gamers * Official OpenGL 4.5 feedback thread https://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/showthread.php/184618-Official-feedback-on-OpenGL-4-5-thread
* OpenGL Reference Cards https://www.khronos.org/developers/reference-cards/
* OpenGL Reference Pages http://opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/
* OpenGL Conformant Products https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products#opengl

OpenGL alternatives

  • Vulkan

  • Vulkan is the result of 18 months in an intense collaboration between leading hardware, game engine and platform vendors, built on significant contributions from multiple Khronos members. Vulkan is designed for portability across multiple platforms with desktop and mobile GPU architectures. Vulkan is available on multiple versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and has been adopted as a native rendering and compute API by platforms including Linux, SteamOS, Tizen and Android.

    tags: development opengl

  • Microsoft DirectX

  • Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

    tags: Bundleware development direct-input direct-setup direct3d

  • 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 Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 will recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar to those of the underlying OpenGL ES 2.0 API. It stays very close to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, with some concessions made for what developers expect out of memory-managed languages such as JavaScript. ยป

    tags: graphic-api graphics html5 javascript-library opengl

  • 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.

    tags: Discontinued gdi cleartype font-smoothing font-rasterizer

  • Crystal Space

  • Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).

    tags: Discontinued dev dev-lib dev-libraries dev-library