Apple Graphics Library
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Apple Graphics Library or AGL is the Apple Inc. API for use of OpenGL
3D graphics within Carbon
windows. It is layered above CGL
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OpenGL
OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...
3D graphics within Carbon
Carbon (API)
Carbon is one of Apple Inc.'s procedural application programming interfaces for the Macintosh operating system. It provides C programming language access to Macintosh system services...
windows. It is layered above CGL
Core OpenGL
Core OpenGL, or CGL, is Apple Inc.'s Macintosh Quartz windowing system interface to the Mac OS X implementation of the OpenGL specification...
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