Editing OpenGL (section)

==Documentation==
The OpenGL Architecture Review Board released a series of manuals along with the specification which have been updated to track changes in the API. These are commonly referred to by the colors of their covers:

;The Red Book
:OpenGL Programming Guide, 9th Edition. {{ISBN|978-0-134-49549-1}}
:The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.5 with SPIR-V
;The Orange Book
:OpenGL Shading Language, 3rd edition. {{ISBN|0-321-63763-1}}
:A tutorial and reference book for [[GLSL]].

Historic books (pre-OpenGL 2.0):

;The Green Book
:OpenGL Programming for the X Window System. {{ISBN|978-0-201-48359-8}}
:A book about X11 interfacing and [[OpenGL Utility Toolkit]] (GLUT).
;The Blue Book
:OpenGL Reference manual, 4th edition. {{ISBN|0-321-17383-X}}
:Essentially a hard-copy printout of the [[Unix manual]] (man) pages for OpenGL.
:Includes a poster-sized fold-out diagram showing the structure of an idealised OpenGL implementation.
;The Alpha Book (white cover)
:OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT. {{ISBN|0-201-40709-4}}
:A book about interfacing OpenGL with Microsoft Windows.
OpenGL's documentation is also accessible via its official webpage.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 19, 2011|title=OpenGL - The Industry's Foundation for High Performance Graphics|url=https://www.khronos.org/opengl/|access-date=March 18, 2021|website=The Khronos Group|language=en}}</ref>