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1. Direct3D is a proprietary API designed by Microsoft Corporation for hardware 3D acceleration on the Windows platform

2. OpenGL is an open standard API that provides a number of functions for the rendering of 2D and 3D graphics and is available on most modern operating systems. If hardware 3D acceleration is present, OpenGL can use it.

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