• 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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    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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    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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    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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    "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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  • 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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  • Vulkan (redirect from GlNext)
    graphics and computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU. It is designed to support...
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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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