From: http://www.opengl.org/Products/Products.html

"OpenGL is the most widely used API on UNIX and Win9x/NT systems for
professional & consumer graphics applications. With the licensing of OpenGL
by Apple, it is also making rapid headway into Mac OS applications. "

It started life in the Unix world and then migrated elsewhere.

--
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Spider wrote in message <36D9D7E8.38BF972D@bahnhof.se>...
>OpenGL is not a good choice, since it's not avaiable at all in DOS.
>tried quickColour and such settings ??? I have a generral preveiw variable
in my
>scens, only to remove all more timeconsuming things(mirrors, fog, changing
a
>difference to a uinion(faster with text objects), or removing it totally
and so
>on.
>If you want preview, my best tip is to get a modeller. :-)
>And, I doubt it is so easy to implement a rastered engine to the pov-code,
>remember that a scene always needs to be parsed before working, and what
would
>happen to the preview if I had som really nasty macros in the scene??? no,
it
>won't work on this level. And, I don't think there is a good OpenGl on any
other
>platform than windoze, perhaps X in unix, but I don't have that platform so
I
>don't know.
>
>Sorry, but you can really make one if you want. :-)
>--
>//Spider
>( spi### [at] bahnhofse ) [ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
>#declare life = rand(seed(42))*sqrt(-1);

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