Mesa

• Originally designed for Unix/X11 workstations. Now support Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, Windows.
• FREE Open Source
• Developers
  • Original Developer: Brian Paul (brian@mesa3d.org)
  • Contributors webpage: (http://www.mesa3d.org/devel.html)
  • The Mesa Project is hosted by SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d/)

Applications

• Mesa is a freeware low-level 3-D graphics library with an API similar to the API of OpenGL. The original purpose is to emulate OpenGL commands on platforms that don't support OpenGL. The library can be used as a direct replacement for OpenGL, either statically or dynamically linked to applications compiled with the standard OpenGL headers.

Examples/Samples

• MesaDemos on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3&release_id=15281)
• SGI sample OpenGL implementation (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample)

• Mesa webpage (http://www.mesa3d.org/)
• Mesa (http://freshmeat.net/projects/mesa/)
• Mesa User's Guide (http://www.mesa3d.org/Mesa/MesaUsersGuide.html)
• Mesa Mailing Lists (http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3)
• PMesa webpage (http://pmesa.sourceforge.net/)
• PMesa (http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmesa/)
• OpenGL (http://www.opengl.org/)
• GLX (http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/glx/)
• X Window System (http://www.x.org/)
• XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/)
• Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) (http://www.sgi.com/)
• OpenGL API Newsgroup (news://news.gmu.edu/comp.graphics.api.opengl)