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Nimbus SDK: A Tiny Framework for C++ Real-Time Volumetric Cloud Rendering, Animation and Morphing

by Carlos Jiménez de Parga

A reusable Visual C++ framework for real-time volumetric cloud rendering, animation and morphing

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

by Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

3D Plaza in C# with opengl Exploration

by Vasily Tserekh

A simple 3D exploration of a plaza in OpenGL and C#

The OpenGL and GLUT: A Powerful Graphics Library and Utility Kit

by logicchild

An article that explains how to use this library

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OpenGL and WPF: Integrating an OpenGL Window inside a WPF Window

by gabriel4sonic

Shows how to use OpenGL in a .NET WPF application by directly incorporating an OpenGL window as a child of the main WPF window, making it behave more like a control

RGFW | Singler-Header Lightweight Framework for Basic Window and Graphics Context Handling (like GLFW)

by ColleagueRiley

A multi-platform single-header very simple-to-use framework library for creating GUI Libraries or simple GUI programs.

Diligent Engine: A Modern Cross-Platform Low-Level Graphics Library

by EgorYusov

This article introduces Diligent Engine, a modern cross-platform graphics API abstraction library and rendering framework

Unity Graphics Emulator for Native Plugin Development

by EgorYusov

This article describes Unity low-level plugin interface and the Unity graphics interface emulator that facilitates native plugin development.

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RGFW | Singler-Header Lightweight Framework for Basic Window and Graphics Context Handling (like GLFW)

25 Feb 2024 by ColleagueRiley

A multi-platform single-header very simple-to-use framework library for creating GUI Libraries or simple GUI programs.

DirectX

Cocoa

OpenGL

WinAPI

Vulkan

Xlib

Quality Losses (Related to Kerning) in Text Rendering for OpenGL with FreeType

17 Dec 2022 by Steffen Ploetz

High-end quality in text rendering concerns not only the characters, but also the character spaces - and here FreeType is not quite up to date anymore: The kerning used by FreeType is not always available (especially with newer fonts).

C++

OpenGL

multimedia

Introduction to OpenGL with C/C++ on ReactOS

10 May 2021 by Steffen Ploetz

Check whether ReactOS is able to run OpenGL, determine a convincing IDE and get started with the OpenGL on ReactOS.

Light Source Features and Related Material Properties in OpenGL

16 Apr 2021 by Steffen Ploetz

Basic light source approaches and related material properties handling for OpenGL

C++

OpenGL

Dev

Geometric Primitives for OpenGL

9 Mar 2021 by Steffen Ploetz

Box, cylinder, cone and sphere construction for OpenGL with texture and light effects

C++

OpenGL

Dev

computational-geometry

The Role of WGL Functions of OpenGL Rendering onto Microsoft Windows

27 Feb 2021 by Southmountain

This post sheds some light on all WGL functions(wiggle functions) in OpenGL extension for Microsoft Windows system

Calculating the Pi Number

13 May 2020 by Askar Azhibaev

Calculating the pi number faster using a simple formula

OpenGL

mathematics

A Very Simple Car Race Game in C# and OpenGL

30 Mar 2020 by Vasily Tserekh

A simple straightforward car race game with minimum LOC.

OpenGL

Dev

OpenGL Rendering to a WPF Window

25 Jun 2019 by MaximilianW

OpenGL rendering to WPF window

C++

OpenGL

Add Clipboard Text Provider Capability to Your C# OpenGL App on X11

18 Feb 2019 by Steffen Ploetz

How to realize text copy functionality via inter process communication for your OpenTK based C# OpenGL application running on X11

Add Clipboard Text Consumer Capability to Your C# OpenGL App on X11

18 Feb 2019 by Steffen Ploetz

How to realize text past functionality via inter process communication for your OpenTK based C# OpenGL application running on X11

Copy a GL Texture to Another GL Texture or to a GL Pixel Buffer and from a GL Pixel Buffer

13 Oct 2018 by Steffen Ploetz

How to use GL's pixel buffer object (PBO) to copy one texture to another

OpenGL GPGPU 1D Fourier Transform

22 Feb 2018 by Asif Bahrainwala

OpenGL Compute Shader

Approach to Implement Modal Windows for OpenGL/OpenTK in MONO/.NET for Serious Applications

5 Jun 2016 by Steffen Ploetz

How to implement modal windows with OpenTK on Linux, that behave like dialog boxes on Windows

A Polygon-triangulation Algorithm with Time Complexity O(N*logN)

16 Jan 2016 by Mathew_wwx

This tip will introduce a library written in C++ that wraps up a 2d polygon triangulation algorithm with time complexity of O(N*logN), the algorithm works on both self-intersected and non self-intersected polygons.

VRT - Realtime HTML5 Data Visualization Application

11 Nov 2015 by Odd Marthon