C++<BR><BR>Your project seems like it would lend itself well to an OO high-level design, even if the low level graphics engine isn't necessarily OO. C++ lets you mix in objects when you need/want ...

A project I had to do in my OpenGL class at university was write our own OpenGL library that outputs to a PostScript file instead of the screen. Crazy cool stuff! Of course in my clas of about 30 ...