MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

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What does GLUT stands for
A
opengl graphics Library
B
opengl utility toolkit
C
opengl utility library toolkit
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) is a library of utilities for OpenGL programs, which primarily perform system-level I/O with the host operating system. Functions performed include window definition, window control, and monitoring of keyboard and mouse input.

Detailed explanation-2: -For simple applications written in C or C++, one possible windowing API is GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit). GLUT is a small API. It is used to create windows that serve as simple frames for OpenGL drawing surfaces. It has support for handling mouse and keyboard events, and it can do basic animation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) is a library of functions that provides a simple interface between the graphics subsystem and the operating and window systems of the computer platform. Window or screen window denotes a rectangular are of our device display, and displays the contents of the frame buffer.

Detailed explanation-4: -OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering.

Detailed explanation-5: -glutInit is used to initialize the GLUT library. void glutInit(int *argcp, char **argv); argcp. A pointer to the program’s unmodified argc variable from main.

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