Comment on The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3DparentComments−daeken15yOpenGL doesn't have a teapot primitive -- common misconception. GLUT (the OpenGL utility toolkit) provides glut[Solid/Wire]Teapot for convenience, but that's by no means core OpenGL; it just backends to a bunch of quads.−marshray15yTrue, but without GLUT or an equivalent utility library (hit or miss) you're writing even more scaffolding code. Much more.
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OpenGL doesn't have a teapot primitive -- common misconception. GLUT (the OpenGL utility toolkit) provides glut[Solid/Wire]Teapot for convenience, but that's by no means core OpenGL; it just backends to a bunch of quads.
True, but without GLUT or an equivalent utility library (hit or miss) you're writing even more scaffolding code. Much more.