opengl

documentation

• The Red Book is a good introductory text.
• There's another online version here.
• The Blue Book is the standard OpenGL reference.
• The Red and Blue Books are somewhat outdated now.
• For the latest, see the online man pages.
• More online documentation

software

• You can download OpenGL here.
• GLUT is a simple UI lib for use with OpenGL.
• Another site for GLUT: Nate Robins.
• Help installing GLUT in Vis Studio .NET 2003.
• Installing GLUT & OpenGL in Visual Studio 2010 and Windows 7/Vista/XP
• Graphical step-by-step for using GLUT and OpenGL on Windows 7/Vista/XP with Visual Studio 2008/2010

sites

• Here's the main main OpenGL site.
• The Real Time Rendering book's OpenGL links
• Here's some free OpenGL source code link.

introductions

• Aaron Schultz on setting things up
• OpenGL 3 or later (shaders etc.)
  • oglDev's intro. Nice, step by step, moving through shaders to advanced techniques.
  • Joe Groff's intro. More complex, includes shading with GLSL.
  • Anton Gerdelan's intro. Very specific example with GLSL.
  • opengl-tutorial.org's intro. Again, involves shaders.
• Earlier versions of OpenGL (immediate mode etc.)
  • Josh Stratton's nice hello world. Very basic immediate mode example.
  • Lazy Foo intro. Starts very basic, then proceeds to 3 stuff.

tutorials

• Neon Helium
• Nate Miller
• GLUT source contains many Red Book examples and demos.
• Nate Robins has made a lot of demos.
• GameDev's OpenGL page
• Flipcode's tutorials archive
• OpenGL.org's tutorials & demos page
• SGI's OpenGL SIGGRAPH courses
• Above site doesn't work well. See:
  • 97 notes
  • 97 codes99 notes
  • 2001 site
• GameTutorials.com has a few free tutorials
• Alan Baylis' tutorials

demos

• Nehe's demos
• Flipcode's demos & utilities
• Nate Robin's demos
• Game Developer Magazine's demos
• SGI's OpenGL 1.1 samples
• Nvidia's tech demos