OpenGL 2.0 Spec Announced

OpenGL has publicly unveiled the final OpenGL 2.0 specification. The standard is billed as an open alternative to Microsoft's Direct3D featuring benefits such as Programmable Shaders. OpenGL is a platform independent interface to graphics hardware that was originally designed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). id Software's Quake III Arena makes use of OpenGL in its core graphics rendering engines.

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