The Khronos Group announced today the release of the latest version of the OpenGL specification, which provides for an API for creating 2D and 3D graphics on any platform. The new spec, 4.0, includes lots of updates for advanced technologies. The changes in the OpenGL 4.0 spec help bring OpenGL more in line with Direct3D 11. Part of the spec are the GLSL 4.00 update to the OpenGL Shading language, which lets developers utilize the GPU acceleration present on the most recently released video cards. New features include two additional shader stages that let the GPU offload geometry tessellation from the CPU; per-sample fragment shaders and programmable fragment shader input positions, allowing the drawing of data generated by OpenGL or external APIs without the interference of the CPU, shader subroutines and 64-bit double precision floating point shader operations. For more information click here.

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