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SGI licenses OpenGL code which ATI and nVidia might be using in their drivers. The open source implementation, [[wikipedia:Mesa 3D|Mesa 3D]], is an unaccelerated software implementation provided with [[wikipedia:XFree86|XFree86]] and [[wikipedia:XOrg|XOrg]] for [[Unix]]. |
SGI licenses OpenGL code which ATI and nVidia might be using in their drivers. The open source implementation, [[wikipedia:Mesa 3D|Mesa 3D]], is an unaccelerated software implementation provided with [[wikipedia:XFree86|XFree86]] and [[wikipedia:XOrg|XOrg]] for [[Unix]]. |
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Revision as of 00:08, 7 December 2005
OpenGL is a 3D graphics library. Video cards from ATI and nVidia accelerate OpenGL by drawing the graphics.
Its competitor, DirectX, is only available at Microsoft platforms. OpenGL is dominant on Mac OS X and Unix and also available for Windows.
SGI licenses OpenGL code which ATI and nVidia might be using in their drivers. The open source implementation, Mesa 3D, is an unaccelerated software implementation provided with XFree86 and XOrg for Unix.