OpenGL for Win32
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Introduction
OpenGL is the most widely adopted, cross-platform standard for 3D rendering
and 3D hardware acceleration. The software runtime library ships with all
Windows, MacOS, Linux and Unix systems.
OpenGL is built for compatibility across hardware and operating systems.
This architecture makes it easy to port OpenGL programs from one system to
another.
The OpenGL Perl module allows a Perl program to use OpenGL by letting it
make OpenGL function calls.
Note that all the books on OpenGL can be used to program with this module:
it's easy to jump from C to Perl and vice versa.
More general info on
Wikipedia.
The current maintainer of the Perl OpenGL module is
Chris Marshall.
The project development is hosted by
SourceForge.
The old version of this page can be consulted
here
(for the nostalgic ones).
Installation
The last version of the package and all useful associated modules:
OpenGL::Shader (OpenGL Shader Utility Module)OpenGL::Image (Image Load/Modify/Save Support for the OpenGL Module)Image::Magick (ImageMagick Perl Extension)
are in my
ppm repository.
If you are using ActiveState's Perl distribution (Perl5.6, Perl5.8, Perl5.10, Perl5.12 and Perl5.14),
the easiest way to install this module is to use ppm.
Type (or cut & paste) this command in a DOS console:
ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/OpenGL.ppd
Example script
To test the module, I translated in Perl some classic C programs for OpenGL.
Download the package (POGLdemo.zip) and run
the scripts to test the module on your machine.
The last screenshot is the one of the script cube.pl, an
adaptation in Perl of the Chris Halsall's programme cube.c.
See the
O'Reilly Network.
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