SGI GL compatible Graphics Libraries

Wes Peters wes at harem.clydeunix.com
Sat Apr 6 07:17:08 AEST 1991


In article <mg.669711839 at godzilla>, mg@ (Mike Gigante) writes:
[about GNU-DIGS, a library similar to the SiliG Graphics Library]
> Should anyone (incl. Nicolas) wish to work on GNU-DIGS and re-connect 
> the project to GNU, then we'd appreciate the input. The outstanding 
> issues at the moment are
> 
> 1) better X interfaces
> 2) more diverse PC support
> 3) TeXinfo documentation (this is mandatory but not yet even started)
> 4) an alternate 2D pipeline that doesn't penalize 2D applications.

I'd add:

  5) Zbuffering.

Zbuffering in software would be slow, but developing 3D apps without it
would be (hmmm... can we use those words on the net?  Probably not.)
distressing.  Or am I just lazy?

	Wes Peters
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