Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A display list (or display file) is a series of graphics commands that define an output image. The image is created (rendered) by executing the commands. For a display device without a frame buffer, such as the old vector graphics displays, the commands were executed every fraction of a second to maintain and animate the output. In modern systems, the commands need only be executed when they have changed or in order to refresh the output (e.g., when restoring a minimized window). A display list can represent both two- and three-dimensional scenes. Systems that make use of a display list to store the scene are called retained mode systems as opposed to immediate mode systems.

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