OpenGL – help page for ECE660 (Fall, 1999)


To help you obtain and begin to use OpenGL, running Windows 95/98, with Visual C++:

Obtaining and Installing OpenGL and the GLUT.

Getting started with OpenGL (Windows 95)

Getting started with OpenGL (unix): go here to get Mesa, and

download both MesaLib-3.0.tar.gz and MesaDemos-3.0.tar.gz (which contains the glut source code).

Some notes on OpenGL (and open Inventor), and VRML (with Live3D).

An interesting press release (12/9/97) on Acceptance of OpenGL in Industry

Some Notes on working with Lighting and Materials in OpenGL


Resources for OpenGL:

Gateway to OpenGL info

OpenGL WWW Center

OpenGL WWW Pages Info

The openGL Graphics System: A specification (version 1.1)

The Technical Publications Library

GLUT 3.5 now available

OpenGL WWW Pages Intro

OpenGL Books and Papers

The Mesa 3-D graphics library