opengl_presentation

Brendan Whitfield  -  Andrew Mandula  -  Fernando Ellis

What is it?

"OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications" - opengl.org

"open specifications and associated conformance tests that enable hardware and software communities to effectively communicate with each other" - Khronos Group

Controlled & maintained by

The Khronos Group

• Non-Profit, Member-Funded Consortium
• Founded by
  • 3Dlabs
  • ATI
  • Discreet
  • Evans & Sutherland
  • Intel
  • NVIDIA
  • Silicon Graphics (SGI)
  • Sun Microsystem

OpenGL was initially created by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board in 1992, but transferred all control to the Khronos Group in 2006

Khronos Group, is an assemblage of corporations seeking a common goal (the OpenGL standard)

Member Summary

• 84 Contributors

  Participants with voting rights

• 15 Academic Members

  Participants with NO voting rights

• 12 Promoters

  Functions as Board of Directors

Members of the Khronos Group design, document, and create conformance tests for the OpenGL standard.

Copies of the standard, as well as header files, are freely available to the public.

Process

Standards in development are classifiedfor fear of patent trolling