XGL

1. Platforms, Prices, and Supplier/Creator

o Solaris, Unix

o Freeware

o Sun Microsystems, Inc.: http://www.sun.com

2. Applications
• XGL is a 2D and 3D library designed to support a wide variety of graphics-based applications, layered on top of OpenGL via glitz
• It provides the applications programmer with the graphics capabilities such as immediate-mode rendering, loadable device pipelines, separate 2D and 3D graphics pipelines, broad primitive and coordinate type support, NURBS surfaces, multi-primitive operators, etc.

3. Web Resources
• Official website: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/801-6670/6i11gqgs7?a=view