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Installing OpenGL Using OpenGL

OpenGL is a widely used cross platform open source 3D graphics library. The definitive text on programming OpenGL is OpenGL Programming Guide. This is the main OpenGL web page. This is used for the graphics visualizations of the ABM models.

Installing OpenGL

The OpenGL library is often already installed on a system. This is true of Apple Mac computers (and Ubuntu Linux?).

Linux Install

Already installed on Ubuntu? Or need the following? libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dev Does the Ubuntu build-essential package install OpenGL?

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get -y install tool-package-name

Mac Install

Not needed. OpenGL comes installed on a Mac with OS X 10.6 and greater.

Windows Install

Not known if needed or not and if needed how to install.

Using OpenGL