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Open Graphics Library (OpenGL).

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.

Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows.

Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where performance is important, such as games.

Direct3D uses hardware acceleration if it is available on the graphics card, allowing for hardware acceleration of the entire 3D rendering pipeline or even only partial acceleration.

Direct3D exposes the advanced graphics capabilities of 3D graphics hardware, including Z-buffering, W-buffering, Stencil buffering, spatial anti-aliasing, alpha blending, colour blending, mipmapping, texture blending, clipping, Culling, atmospheric effects, perspective-correct texture mapping, programmable HLSL shaders and effects.

Integration with other DirectX technologies enables Direct3D to deliver such features as video mapping, hardware 3D rendering in 2D overlay planes, and even sprites, providing the use of 2D and 3D graphics in interactive media ties.

The demoscene is an international computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos: small, self-contained computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations.

The main goal of a demo is to show off programming, artistic, and musical skills.

A graphics processing unit (GPU), occasionally called visual processing unit (VPU), is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.

GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics and image processing, and their highly parallel structure makes them more efficient than general-purpose CPUs for algorithms where the processing of large blocks of data is done in parallel.

In a personal computer, a GPU can be present on a video card, or it can be embedded on the motherboard or—in certain CPUs—on the CPU die.

A programming game is generally a video game which incorporates elements of computer programming into the game which enables the player to direct otherwise autonomous units within the game to follow commands in a domain-specific programming language, often represented as a visual language to simplify the programming metaphor.

Programming games broadly fall into two areas: single-player games where the programming elements either make up part of or the whole of a puzzle game, and multiplayer games where the player's automated program is pitted against other players' programs.