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Everybody loves graphics. I mean 3D graphics. Some like to watch it, some enjoy creating it. Some just have fun in making it happen. The latter are known as graphics driver developers.
Being a Mesa developer since 2002, I am very biased towards OpenGL. You may want to check my Mesa pages.
I also do occasional HW-acelerated drivers (3dfx Voodoo) and other various helper libraries:
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