In the sample source for this tutorial, we use freeglut, glew, OpenGL 4.3 programmable vertex and pixel shaders, texture mapping a screen-oriented polygonal surface that is rendered to the display.

The next version of OpenGL (2.0) will offer a High Level Shader Language (HLSL) that will allow coding in a C like language and also alleviate the need to write the function more than once for ...