If each time you drove your car, you first had to give detailed instructions to the starter motor, transmission and every other piece of hardware, all but the most determined drivers would stay home.

The way OpenGL draws to the screen is influenced by the choice of "pixel format". A pixel format specifies several properties such as: - Whether the pixel buffer is single- or double-buffered. - ...

This example demonstrates the creation of a texture in OpenGL* 4.3 that has a sub-region updated by an OpenCL™ C kernel running on Intel® Processor Graphics with Microsoft Windows*. One example use of ...

For OpenGL 2 capable hardware, these new extensions are provided: * ARB_texture_swizzle (also in core OpenGL 3.3) * ARB_sampler_objects (also in core OpenGL 3.3) * ARB_occlusion_query2 (also in core ...