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Forgive my ignorance but....has OpenGL been renamed to just GL or something recently?

by djhworld 14y ago

Ygg2 14y ago
Think that the writer meant the suite of OpenGL like languages like OpenGL ES, WebGL, etc.
beefsack 14y ago
Not according to the official site: http://www.opengl.org/ http://www.opengl.org/.
unwind 14y ago
It might be a Swedishism, I noticed the SE domain. In the context of graphics programming (in my experience), the "Open" is often dropped here since it's pretty clear which API is being referred to with just "GL". Easier to say, without the forced slowness of the long "O" in "Open".
- Rovanion 14y ago
  Swedishism? Google ain't finding any explanation for me.
  - lemonad 14y ago
    I think it was just meant as being local to Sweden.
- to3m 14y ago
  blogspot redirects one to a country-specific site, presumably so they can censor your posts according to local customs. This makes it difficult to tell where a site is from. (I believe Mr Lottes lives in America, as he works for NVidia, but I know nothing more about him than that.) You can also access the same site at http://timothylottes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, http://timothylottes.blogspot.de/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.de/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, http://timothylottes.blogspot.fr/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.fr/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, http://timothylottes.blogspot.ru/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.ru/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, and so on...
kzrdude 14y ago
GL is a pretty clear nickname of OpenGL. For example libGL and the fact that all functions start with `gl`.
MostAwesomeDude 14y ago
"OpenGL" is a trademark of the Khronos Group, and there are implementations, like Mesa3D, that do not have permission to use that trademark. Mesa's implementation is (somewhat jokingly) known as "MesaGL" but is definitely a reasonable and performant GL implementation. "GL" works well for referring to the graphics language without invoking the trademark.

Forgive my ignorance but....has OpenGL been renamed to just GL or something recently?

Ygg2 14y ago

Think that the writer meant the suite of OpenGL like languages like OpenGL ES, WebGL, etc.

beefsack 14y ago

Not according to the official site: http://www.opengl.org/ http://www.opengl.org/.

unwind 14y ago

It might be a Swedishism, I noticed the SE domain. In the context of graphics programming (in my experience), the "Open" is often dropped here since it's pretty clear which API is being referred to with just "GL". Easier to say, without the forced slowness of the long "O" in "Open".

Rovanion 14y ago
Swedishism? Google ain't finding any explanation for me.
- lemonad 14y ago
  I think it was just meant as being local to Sweden.
to3m 14y ago
blogspot redirects one to a country-specific site, presumably so they can censor your posts according to local customs. This makes it difficult to tell where a site is from. (I believe Mr Lottes lives in America, as he works for NVidia, but I know nothing more about him than that.) You can also access the same site at http://timothylottes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, http://timothylottes.blogspot.de/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.de/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, http://timothylottes.blogspot.fr/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.fr/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, http://timothylottes.blogspot.ru/2012/11/why-gl-now.html http://timothylottes.blogspot.ru/2012/11/why-gl-now.html, and so on...

kzrdude 14y ago

GL is a pretty clear nickname of OpenGL. For example libGL and the fact that all functions start with `gl`.

MostAwesomeDude 14y ago

"OpenGL" is a trademark of the Khronos Group, and there are implementations, like Mesa3D, that do not have permission to use that trademark. Mesa's implementation is (somewhat jokingly) known as "MesaGL" but is definitely a reasonable and performant GL implementation. "GL" works well for referring to the graphics language without invoking the trademark.