The OpenGL WWW Pages

**Note** This collection of web pages is a local Tulane copy of materials provided by Digital Equipment Corporation for public distribution.

The OpenGL man pages have been reformatted into HTML for your reference. At this time it is not part of our Open3D product, but merely a convenience for our customers. (And web surfers.)

HTML does not have a good way to write mathematic equations. I have done my best to represent the various formulas in the man pages into something readable on character-based readers. I have used one ISO Latin-1 one character, the raised dot (·, hex b7), to indicate multiplication. If this is a problem for people I can change it to `*'. Superscripts are placed on the line above and subscripts are placed on the line below their referent. Fortunately I didn't run across any instances of subscripts on one line followed by superscripts on the line below.

My primary goals are

  1. Make the man pages readable and correct.
  2. Make sure the formulas, equations and tables are readable and correct.
  3. Keep all information visible for character based readers.
Making everything look pretty is not as important.

If you find any errors or if you have any suggestions, please send mail to andy.vesper@eng.pko.dec.com or andy.vesper@pko.mts.dec.com. I will try to fix them up as I find time. Unfortunately this is a volunteer effort and I so I cannot spend much time on it.

To start, choose either the alphabetic order page or specification order page.

There is also an introductory page located at glXIntro.

The GLU tesselator has changed in version 1.2; here are some notes on the new GLU tesselator


Due to popular demand, I have added a tar file and a zip file, each of which contains all the .html sources. Note that the names are long names with the extension .html, and so are not appropriate to being placed on a DOS disk.


For more OpenGL information, I suggest starting at The OpenGL WWW Center.


You can also read the hypertext version of The OpenGL Graphics System: A Specification (Version 1.0). In this document all formulae are given as images, so they look much better than my ASCII art.


Last Edited: Tuesday, October 24, 1995

AFV