At its core, GLX provides OpenGL functions to X11, adds to the X protocol by allowing 3d rendering commands to be sent, and an extension that reads rendering commands and passes them to OpenGL.

It also lets you examine OpenGL state, shaders, textures, buffers and so on, and drop into gdb to see what is going wrong. BuGLe is a powerful wrapping tool that can perform certain actions with a ...

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This data can be passed to OpenGL functions like glTexImage2D, using the format parameter GL_RGBA and the data type GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE. Another useful module in the Python standard library is imageop.

Versions of OpenGL are bundled with the Mac OS, Windows, Unix and Linux systems. Although it includes 2D graphics functions, it is primarily used in 3D environments.

OpenGL’s ARB members meet quarterly. The ARB is slow to add functions to OpenGL, says Bill Mannel, SGI’s OpenGL product manager, because it must get a consensus among board members.