OpenGL SuperBible阅读笔记

第二章　第一个OpenGL程序

Preface

After reading this book, readers should be comfortable looking up finer details in the OpenGL specification, experimenting with OpenGL on their machines, and using extensions.

OpenGL的作用

OpenGL is an interface that your application can use to access and control the graphics subsystem of the device on which it runs.

Standardizing the interface to a subsystem increases probability and allows software developers to concentrate on creating quality applications, producing interesting content, and ensuring the overall performance of their applications, rather than worrying about the specifics of the platforms they want them to run on.

Scalability and Parallelism

Through a combination of pipelining and parallelism, incredible performance of modern graphics processors is realized.

OpenGL的目标

The goal of OpenGL is to provide an abstraction layer between your ap