OpenGL 4.1 Specification Announced

WesternActor writes "The Khronos Group has announced full details for the OpenGL 4.1 specification. Among the new features of the spec, which comes just five months after the release of the 4.0 specification, is full support for OpenGL ES, which simplifies porting between mobile and desktop platforms. It'll be interesting to see what effect, if any, this new spec has on the graphics industry mdash; more compatibility could change the way many embedded systems are designed. There are lots of other changes and additions in the spec, as well." Reader suraj.sun contributes insight from Ars, which brings OpenGL's competition into focus: "OpenGL 4.0 brought feature parity with Direct3D 11's new features mdash; in particular, compute shaders and tessellation mdash; and with 4.1, the Khronos Group claims that it is surpassing the functionality offered in Microsoft's 3D API. ... Whether this truly constitutes a leapfrogging of Direct3D 11 is not obvious."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F07%2F26%2F2344203%2FOpenGL-41-Specification-Announced" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=OpenGL+4.1+Specification+Announced%3A+ http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbPbLkc" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/26/2344203/OpenGL-41-Specification-Announced?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vb4L7D1MPlkWpv6aR0rLqe0goS0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vb4L7D1MPlkWpv6aR0rLqe0goS0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vb4L7D1MPlkWpv6aR0rLqe0goS0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vb4L7D1MPlkWpv6aR0rLqe0goS0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/b7bbjwGcu5U" height="1" width="1"/

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