Python and OpenGL

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The OpenGL graphics library can be used from within a Python program with the PyOpenGL package. Since modern graphics chip sets include hardware for a lot of what OpenGL does this approach can produce some impressive real time graphics with low CPU requirements (the bulk of the work can be done on the graphics card). The PyGame library is a good place to get started doing this.

2008-Sep-29: A new set of PyOpenGL demos has been created. [6948]
2008-Aug-13: Pad images to power-of-two dimensions uses PIL to read and pad images so they have dimensions that are exact powers of two, which might be required for some OpenGL texture map implementations. [6680] [1]
2008-Aug-05: The pyglet project also makes use of OpenGL. [6638]

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