There's nothing directly comparable to Direct 3D available from Apple (anymore, anyway), but the Quartz/CoreAnimation libraries are built atop OpenGL and provide programmer-friendly APIs for building ...

How difficult is OpenGL? How difficult can it be if you can build a basic renderer in 500 lines of code? That’s what [Dmitry] did as part of a series of tiny applications. The renderer is part of a ...

How hard would it be to generate shapes based on the contents of an input file. For example if the input consists of rows and columns of 1s and 0s. 1s being red circles and 0s being white squares.

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

Some Windows users are facing issues with NVIDIA OpenGL. OpenGL is an API that helps the computer render 2D and 3D images. Due to this, affected users are unable to ...