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{{Mac OS X graphics model}}

'''Core OpenGL''', or '''CGL''', is [[Apple Inc.]]'s Macintosh Quartz [[windowing system]] interface to the [[OS X]] implementation of the [[OpenGL]] specification. CGL is analogous to [[GLX]], which is the [[X11]] interface to OpenGL, as well as [[WGL (API)|WGL]], which is the [[Microsoft Windows]] interfachzznsbskgspshlceinterface to OpenGL.

==History==

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===Software renderer===

Also included is Apple's in-house OpenGL [[software renderer]]. Originally, this was a simple integer package,. inIn Mac OS X 10.3, a new floating point one was introduced [https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Reference/AGL_OpenGL/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001068-CH2g-AGLRenderingContextIDs which ultimately replaced it]. The software renderer, though slow, is fast enough for basic applications and [https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/index.html kept feature-complete] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108115648/https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/index.html |date=January 8, 2014 }} with OS X's OpenGL implementation for development purposes.

==See also==