OpenGL Performer™ Programmer's Guide
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# OpenGL Performer™ Programmer's Guide

Document Number: 007-1680-090

CONTRIBUTORS

Written by George Eckel and Ken Jones

Illustrated by Chrystie Danzer and Chris Wengelski

Production by Karen Jacobson

Engineering contributions by Angus Dorbie, Paolo Farinelli, Tom Flynn, Yair Kurzion, Radomir Mech, Alexandre Naaman, Marcin Romaszewicz, Allan Schaffer, and Jenny Zhao

COPYRIGHT

© 1994, 2000–2003 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

LIMITED RIGHTS LEGEND

The electronic (software) version of this document was developed at private expense; if acquired under an agreement with the USA government or any contractor thereto, it is acquired as "commercial computer software" subject to the provisions of its applicable license agreement, as specified in (a) 48 CFR 12.212 of the FAR; or, if acquired for Department of Defense units, (b) 48 CFR 227-7202 of the DoD FAR Supplement; or sections succeeding thereto. Contractor/manufacturer is Silicon Graphics, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy 2E, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351.

TRADEMARKS AND ATTRIBUTIONS

Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI logo, IRIS, IRIX, ImageVision Library, Indigo, Indy, InfiniteReality, O2, Octane, Onyx, Onyx2, and OpenGL are registered trademarks and CASEVision, Crimson, Elan Graphics, IRIS Geometry Pipeline, IRIS GL, IRIS Graphics Library, IRIS InSight, IRIS Inventor, Indigo Elan, Indigo2, InfinitePerformance, InfiniteReality2, InfiniteReality4, Onyx4, OpenGL Multipipe, OpenGL Performer, OpenGL Shader, Performance Co-Pilot, REACT, RealityEngine, RealityEngine2, Showcase,UltimateVision, and VPro are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.

AutoCAD is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc. CATIA is a registered trademark of DASSAULT SYSTEMES S.A. Designer's Workbench is a trademark of Centric Software, Inc. Lightscape is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Maya is a registered trademark and Wavefront is a trademark of Alias Systems, a division of Silicon Graphics Limited in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. Motif is a registered trademark and X Window System and OSF/Motif are trademarks of The Open Group. Purify is a registered trademark of Rational Software Corporation. Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. RPC is a trademark of ArchVision. VTune is a trademark of Intel Corporation. WindView is a trademark of Wind River Systems. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

PATENT DISCLOSURE

Many of the techniques and methods disclosed in this Programmer's Guide are covered by patents held by Silicon Graphics including U.S. Patent Nos. 5,051,737; 5,369,739; 5,438,654; 5,394,170; 5,528,737; 5,528,738; 5,581,680; 5,471,572 and patent applications pending.

We encourage you to use these features in your OpenGL Performer application on SGI systems.

This functionality and OpenGL Performer are not available for re-implementation and distribution on other platforms without the explicit permission of Silicon Graphics.

## Record of Revision

Revision 020 |  | 1994 |
| Original publication.
Revision 060 |  | November 2000 |
| Updated for the 2.4 version of OpenGL Performer.
Revision 070 |  | November 2001 |
| Updated for the 2.5 version of OpenGL Performer.
Revision 080 |  | December 2002 |
| Updated for the 3.0 version of OpenGL Performer.
Revision 090 |  | December 2003 |
| Updated for the 3.1 version of OpenGL Performer.

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