The Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) can be simply defined as a software interface to the graphics hardware. It is a 3D graphics and modeling library that is highly portable and extremely fast. Using the OpenGL graphics API, you can create some brilliant graphics that are capable of representing 2D and 3D data.

The OpenGL library is a multi-purpose, open-source graphics library that supports applications for 2D and 3D digital content creation, mechanical and architectural design, virtual prototyping, flight simulation, and video games, and allows application developers to configure a 3D graphics pipeline, and submit data to it.

An object is defined by connected vertices. The vertices of the object are then transformed, lit, and assembled into primitives, and rasterized to create a 2D image that can be directly sent to the underlying graphics hardware to render the drawing, which is deemed to be typically very fast, due to the hardware being dedicated to processing...