OpenGL® on Silicon Graphics Systems

Document Number: 007-2392-003

CONTRIBUTORS

Written by Renate Kempf and Jed Hartman. Revised by Ken Jones.

Illustrated by Dany Galgani, Martha Levine, and Chrystie Danzer

Production by Allen Clardy and Karen Jacobson

Engineering contributions by Allen Akin, Steve Anderson, David Blythe, Sharon Rose Clay, Terrence Crane, Kathleen Danielson, Tom Davis, Celeste Fowler, Ziv Gigus, David Gorgen, Paul Hansen, Paul Ho, Simon Hui, George Kyriazis, Mark Kilgard, Phil Lacroute, Jon Leech, Mark Peercy, Dave Shreiner, Chris Tanner, Joel Tesler, Gianpaolo Tommasi, Bill Torzewski, Bill Wehner, Nancy Cam Winget, Paula Womack, David Yu, and others.

Some of the material in this book is from “OpenGL from the EXTensions to the SOLutions,” which is part of the developer's toolbox.

St. Peter's Basilica image courtesy of ENEL SpA and InfoByte SpA. Disk Thrower image courtesy of Xavier Berenguer, Animatica.

COPYRIGHT

© 1996, 1998, 2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

LIMITED RIGHTS LEGEND

The software described in this document is "commercial computer software" provided with restricted rights (except as to included open/free source) as specified in the FAR 52.227-19 and/or the DFAR 227.7202, or successive sections. Use beyond license provisions is a violation of worldwide intellectual property laws, treaties and conventions. This document is provided with limited rights as defined in 52.227-14.

TRADEMARKS AND ATTRIBUTIONS

Silicon Graphics, the Silicon Graphics logo, Fuel, InfiniteReality, IRIS, IRIS Indigo, IRIX, OpenGL, and Tezro are registered trademarks and Developer Magic, IMPACT, IRIS GL, IRIS InSight, IRIS ViewKit, Elan, Express, Indy, Indigo, Indigo2, Indigo2 IMPACT, Indigo2 High IMPACT, Indigo2 Maximum IMPACT, InfinitePerformance, O2, Onyx, Onyx4, Open Inventor, OpenGL Performer, R8000, R10000, RapidApp, RealityEngine, SGI ProPack, Silicon Graphics Prism, UltimateVision, and VPro are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

ATI is a registered trademark of ATI Technologies, Inc. Extreme is a trademark used under license by Silicon Graphics Inc. GNOME is a trademark of the GNOME Foundation. Intel and AGP are registered trademarks and Itanium is a trademark of Intel Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies, Inc. OS/2 is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Windows NT is a trademark and Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Motif and OSF/Motif are trademarks of Open Software Foundation. X Window System is a trademark of The Open Group. XFree86 is a trademark of the XFree86 Project, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

Record of Revision

Revision 0011996 
Original publication.

Revision 0021998 
Updated to support OpenGL 1.1.

Revision 003March 2005 

Updated to support OpenGL 1.3 and extensions to support Onyx4 and Silicon Graphics Prism systems.