From: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: Re: TECH: A discussion update for newcomers: distributed worlds
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:25:20 GMT
Message-ID: <Bs6669.F4J@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo


In article <1992Jul29.070618.27185@u.washington.edu> bobp@hal.com (Bob
Pendelton) writes:

>I just printed out the PEXlib draft standard. This describes and Xlib
>level 3D rendering interface. The document is 462 pages of terse text.
>Not far from I have a copy of Tom Gaskins' "PHIGS Programming Manual."
>It is 908 pages long.

... which is why things like PHIGS are definitely not the way to go.

>Pick something simple or be prepared to deal with this level of
>complexity.

Exactly!

As to mip-maps... the idea of a separate "quadrant" for each of r g
and b is interesting, but only if you have "deep" displays; 8-bit deep
systems won't make much use of them.


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