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OpenGL is a vendor-neutral, multiplatform graphics standard with broad industry support. OpenGL APIs allow you to develop portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. OpenGL for Macintosh supports the ATI RAGE-2, RAGE Pro, and RAGE 128 graphics cards shipped in recent Macinstosh computers. OpenGL for Macintosh is implemented as a set of shared libraries. As such, it can be used by any compiler for PowerPC that is compatible with Mac OS. The OpenGL APIs are compatible with Carbon on both the Mac OS X and Mac OS 8 and 9 platforms. However, these functions are currently not exported by Carbon libraries. Your Carbon application must weak link to the OpenGL libraries separately for each platform.

OpenGL for Macintosh Software Development Kit (SDK) This SDK includes the OpenGL libraries, API documentation, and example source code.