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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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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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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based on the Forms Library by Mark Overmars, converted from IRIS GL (a precursor to OpenGL that also included calls to create windows and manage events)...
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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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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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application programming interface (API) IrisGL to its current open standard form OpenGL. When the decision was made to make IrisGL an open standard, the primary...
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Mark Segal decided to substitute this for the convention in predecessor IRIS GL, which was to write vectors as rows; for compatibility, transformation...
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OpenGL Performer, formerly known as IRIS Performer and commonly referred to simply as Performer, is an application development environment. It is a commercial...
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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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Intel Graphics Technology (redirect from Intel Iris Graphics)
HD Graphics and renamed in 2017 as Intel UHD Graphics. Intel Iris Graphics and Intel Iris Pro Graphics are the IGP series introduced in 2013 with some...
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workstation graphics systems existed, including Bell Labs' BLIT, SGI's IRIS GL, Carnegie Mellon's Andrew Project, and Sun's NeWS, but X managed over time...
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Paquin left IBM to join SGI to integrate the X Window System with SGI's IRIS GL interface. Paquin recruited a set of software engineers experienced in...
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tools. Blender organizes data as various kinds of "data blocks" (akin to glTF), such as Objects, Meshes, Lamps, Scenes, Materials, Images, and so on....
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integrated modelling and display packages. Silicon Graphics, Sun Late 1980s IRIS GL (UNIX) workstations Commodity-priced single-user workstations with stereoscopic...
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Burns as a C program named "tomesh.c" for use with Silicon Graphics' IRIS GL API. The algorithm operates on the set of triangles that have not yet been...
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and virtual reality in the mid-1990s with its applications including the IRIS GL-based VisionWorks and the Performer-based Vega, which were used on Silicon...
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The software was based on libraries such as OpenGL (originally IRIS GL), Open Inventor (originally IRIS Inventor), and the graphical user interface libraries...
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to its use of SGI's specialized graphics hardware supporting IrisGL, a precursor to OpenGL. fcheck - or 'Frame Check' is an image sequence viewer. fcheck...
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Mesa (computer graphics) (redirect from Mesa (OpenGL))
"Intel's Iris Gallium3D Driver Now Has Better OpenGL Compatibility Profile Support - Phoronix". "Mesa 19.3 is Introducing a Lot of Open-Source OpenGL + Vulkan...
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windowing system created by Silicon Graphics, used on 68k-based IRIS systems and early IRIS 4D systems. Mex was originally loaded over a network through...
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Google URL Shortener (redirect from Goo.gl)
Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar...
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List of Canon camcorders (redirect from Canon GL-2)
and XLR inputs. Many features of the XL-1s were carried over into the Canon GL-2 and XL-2. The Canon XL-1 and the XL-1s were designed to be very customizable...
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Automorphic Forms and L-Functions for the Group GL(n,R). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-83771-5. Anshel, Iris; Goldfeld, Dorian (1995). Calculus: a Computer...
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7 April 2025. "GL events wins a major contract for the organisation of the 2026 Asian and Para-Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan". GL events (Press release)...
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