Using Python and PyOpenGL on the CS cluster

PyOpenGL is now cleanly installed on the CS cluster (meaning you don't need nasty hacks like getting the libraries from someone's home directory).

NOTE: PyOpenGL is set up on the machines physically in the lab, but not on orchestra (the login.cs.caltech.edu SSH server). You may have to physically come to the lab for your final testing. As always, the code you submit should work on the machines physically in the lab. Alternately, you can code and submit on the UGCS cluster; if you're doing this, send an email to Keegan letting him know.

Here's how to include the libraries and initialize GLUT:

#!/usr/bin/python
from OpenGL.GL import *
from OpenGL.GLU import *
from OpenGL.GLUT import *
import sys

# ...
# somewhere in your init code, before any other gl/glu/glut calls:
glutInit(sys.argv)
# now you can create a window, initialize OpenGL settings, bind
# callbacks, etc.