CMSC 427 - Computer Graphics

Useful Links for OpenGL and GLUT

Official OpenGL site Contains lots of useful links from the basic to the fairly advanced levels.

Mesa site Mesa provides a software emulation of OpenGL. This runs slower and often does not take advantage of your hardware's graphics capabilities. However, if your system does not have OpenGL, this is a good alternative.

Good place for beginners This is another good page for several tutorials on OpenGL.

Download Glut for Win 32 If you are using a Win32 PC that does not have GLUT installed, you can download the GLUT pre-compiled binaries as well as source code.
To download a local copy of GLUT32 that we have found to work well with Windows 2000, click here.

GLUT Tutorial