OpenGL

References

Last modified: July, 2012

(Red book) "OpenGL Programming Guide", 6th Eds, 2008, Addison-Wesley.
A must-read for OpenGL programmers.
(Blue book) "OpenGL Superbible - Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference", 4th eds, Addison-Wesley.
(Orange Book) "OpenGL Shading Language".
Edward Angel, "OpenGL - A Primer", 3rd eds, Pearson Education.
A very "thin" book that gives a good introduction about OpenGL. The codes in C++ uses GLUT, which greatly simplifies interacting with the Windows OS.
Edward Angel and David Shreiner "Interactive Computer Graphics - A top-down approach using OpenGL", 6th ed, Pearson Education, 2012.
Good undergraduate text book on Computer Graphics.
JungHyun Han, "3D Graphics for Game Programming", CRCPress, 2011.
Good and simple explanation for the Graphics Renderer Pipeline and the various transforms, with many nice diagrams.

OpenGL mother site @ www.opengl.org.
Nehe OpenGL Tutorials @ http://nehe.gamedev.net.
One of the best sites on OpenGL.
Nate Robin's OpenGL Tutor @ http://www.xmission.com/~nate/opengl.html.
One of the best sites on OpenGL. Provides a few animated programs to illustrate OpenGL functions, such as gluLookAt. Nate Robin also provide the original GLUT library.
Lighthouse 3D tutorials @ http://www.lighthouse3d.com.