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All About OpenGL Extensions, including specifications for some significant OpenGL extensions

Kilgard, 2004

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13800035269768659426
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Kilgard M
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America: NVIDIA Corporation

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OpenGL is an extensible low-level graphics API. Extensible is the key word. OpenGL implementations are free to extend OpenGL's basic rendering functionality with new rendering operations. Scores of OpenGL extensions have been specified and implemented …
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