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Beyond shaders, OpenGL 2.0 brought several essential updates that modernized the API:

Beyond shaders, version 2.0 introduced several features that became standard for modern rendering: Non-Power-of-Two (NPOT) Textures opengl 20

This pipeline was fast and predictable, but it was also a straightjacket. Want a toon-shaded character? A heat-haze distortion? Water that ripples with sine waves? You had to trick the fixed pipeline or fall back to software CPU rendering. Beyond shaders, OpenGL 2