Low level graphics and you

After a long time of meditating on OpenGL I've come down with a bad case of "I don't know how to do anything and only use tools made by someone better than me". Since the only cure for this common programmer illness is more meditating I've decided I want to learn graphics on an even lower level than OpenGL, though finding a guide for this route has proven to be nigh impossible.

I'd appreciate it if a guru could give me a friendly pointer in the right direction or an insight on the things that take place between an OpenGL call and a pixel being displayed onscreen.

At the end of my journey I desire the ability of displaying but a single pixel without the aid of instruments given to me by the masters.

>>44
This is hardware and math, not subroutines in C or something.

This. OP is asking how these things are implemented; the answer is *in hardware*.

The OpenGL specification explains the rendering pipeline in exhaustive detail; that is how it is physically implemented in the circuits of a GPU. Read that to learn how it works.