Introduction

OpenGL is a hardware-independent Application Programming Interface (API) that provides an interface to graphics operations. It is HP's implementation of OpenGL that converts API commands to graphical images via hardware and/or software functionality. The interface consists of a set of commands that allow applications to define and manipulate three-dimensional objects. The commands include:

OpenGL has been implemented on a large number of vendor platforms where the graphics hardware supports a wide range of capabilities (for example, frame buffer only devices, fully accelerated devices, devices without frame buffer, etc.).

For more information on OpenGL, here is a list of manuals that are published by Addison-Wesley and shipped with HP's implementation of OpenGL.