Mesa 3D (OpenGL) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mesa 3D is an open source 3D computer graphics library that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms. It was initially developed by Brian Paul in August 1993. As of April 2008, it is the only commonly known, fully open source implementation of OpenGL which is continually updated to support the latest OpenGL specification. It is widely used, most importantly by the X.Org implementation of the X Window System where it serves as the OpenGL core for the open-source X.Org/DRI OpenGL drivers. X.Org provides the essential functionality used by most graphical applications which run on Unix-like platforms such as GNU/Linux.