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Silicon Graphics and the Workstation Culture That Industrialized Real-Time 3D

Silicon Graphics turned Stanford's Geometry Engine research into a workstation company whose specialized graphics pipelines, programming libraries and professional systems made interactive 3D an industrial tool.

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OpenGL and the Standardization of Portable 3D Graphics Programming

OpenGL turned Silicon Graphics' workstation graphics lineage into a formally specified, multi-vendor API that let applications target accelerated 3D hardware across platforms.

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