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OpenGL is a graphical industrial standard developed by Silicon Graphics in 1992, for high-performance 3d rendering.

The OpenGL TeaPot

Get your self a cup of tea before starting to play with this demo application, cause you are sure to be sitting in front of the computer for quite a while!

Zeta comes with a demo application for showing the capabilities with OpenGL.

The GL Teapot is a simply an spinning object. The object is being calculated from mathematical instructions. As the calculation is an ongoing process, you have total control over colors, reflectiveness, opacity and shade, through the menus in the demo application.

Each adjustment you do to the demo, will have effect on the rendering speed. In other words, the more calculations you make the application do, the slower the Teapot spins.

You can, as in 3d mov, grab the Teapot with your mouse and change the orb it spins. You can even add another Teapot to the window. The spin rate will then fall dramatically.

The speed of the spin can also be monitored through the number of frames per second (FPS) shown in the lower-left corner of the window.

GLTeapot-NOT!

It's not all that difficult to swap the tea pot by a different image, let us say a Porsche or a fairy tale witch. To change to a different image, simply open a Terminal and type:

The OpenGL objects included with Zeta are:

- 747.3ds
- AT-AT.3ds
- bicycle.3ds
- blazer.3ds
- cartoonwitch.3ds
- chair.3ds
- knot.3ds
- kurt.3ds
- porsche.3ds
- teapot-big.3ds
- teapot-small.3ds
- tommygun.3ds

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