Computer Graphics with OpenGL

Terminology

• ANSI American National Standards Institute
• GL Graphics Library
• VRML Vitrual-Reality Modeling Language
• CG API Computer-graphics application programming interface
• GKS Graphical Kernel System
• ISO International Standards Organization
• GLU OpenGL Utility
• GLUT OpenGL Utility Toolkit
• SIGGRAPH Special Interest Group in Graphics
• GLSL OpenGL Shading Language
• NDC Normalized Device Coordinates
• VBO Vertex buffer objects
• VAO Vertex array object
• EBO element buffer objects

Graphic Libraries

• Open Inventor
• GLU
• GLUT
• FreeGLUT
• SDL
• SFML
• GLFW
• Java2D
• Java3D

CMake

FreeGlut

GLFW