The OpenGL Reference Manual - The Bluebook

"This manual is designed to be used as the companion reference volume to the OpenGL Programming Guide by Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, and Mason Woo (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company). The focus of this Reference Manual is how OpenGL works, while the Programming Guide's focus is how to use OpenGL. For a complete understanding of OpenGL, you need both types of information. Another difference between these two books is that most of the content of this Reference Manual is organized alphabetically, based on the assumption that you know what you don't know and therefore need only to look up a description of a particular command; the Programming Guide is organized like a tutorial—it explains the simpler OpenGL concepts first and builds up to the more complex ones. Although the command descriptions in this manual don't necessarily require you to have read the Programming Guide, your understanding of the intended usage of the commands will be much more complete ...

• Authors: Dave Shreiner
• Keywords: Antialiasing, Bitmaps, Blending, Computer Graphics, Display Lists, Drawing Pixels, Fog, Fonts, Framebuffer, Homogeneous Coordinates, Images, Lighting Model, Normal Vectors, NURBS, Polygon Offset, Quadrics, Tessellators, Texture Mapping, Transformation Mat