OpenGL is a well-known standard for generating 3-D as well as 2-D graphics that is extremely powerful and has many capabilities. OpenGL is defined and released by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ...

While Minecraft graphics are quite basic, they do require OpenGL graphics API to load chunks and other graphical components like shadows and lighting. This graphics API stands for 'Open Graphics ...

Facilitates easy development of a wide variety of 3-D applications by maximizing high-performance 3-D accelerator capabilities via a standard API Tokyo, November 24, 2004-- Renesas Technology Corp.