IRIS GL (Integrated Raster Imaging System Graphics Library) is a proprietary graphics API created by Silicon Graphics (SGI) in the early 1980s for producing...
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source a version of IRIS GL as a public standard called OpenGL. However, SGI had many customers for whom the change from IRIS GL to OpenGL would demand significant...
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Silicon Graphics (section IRIS GL and OpenGL)
through a proprietary API known as IRIS Graphics Library (IRIS GL). As more features were added over the years, IRIS GL became harder to maintain and more...
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Look up Iris or iris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iris most often refers to: Iris (anatomy), part of the eye Iris (color), an ambiguous color term...
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subsystem and the (then new) IRIS Graphics Library (IRIS GL) API for their RS/6000 POWERstation line of POWER1-based workstations. IrisVision was an unintended...
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together. Silicon Graphics Image for filename extension .iris IRIS GL, the predecessor of OpenGL "IRIS Terminal Guide V1.3" (PDF). SGI. 1984. Retrieved 2021-12-24...
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Open Inventor (redirect from IRIS Inventor)
originally IRIS Inventor, is a C++ object-oriented retained mode 3D graphics toolkit designed by SGI to provide a higher layer of programming for OpenGL. Its...
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industry-standard OpenGL graphics API. SGI originated the IRIX name in the 1988 release 3.0 of the operating system for the SGI IRIS 4D series of workstations...
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Triangle strip (section OpenGL implementation)
by resending vertices, APIs sometimes explicitly support this feature. IRIS GL supported Swaps (flipping two subsequent vertices in a strip), a feature...
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than v2. Other notable subsystems included: IRIS GL, a 3D rendering library, the progenitor of OpenGL. IRIS GL was licensed by IBM from SGI in 1987, then...
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