From: Bob H. <ha...@st...> - 2007-10-09 12:51:27
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Egon Willighagen wrote: >Hi Bob, > >On 10/9/07, Bob Hanson <ha...@st...> wrote: > > >>OK, I've done the dirty job. I basically spent all day today building >>and rebuilding export generators. Here's the scoop: >> >> > >Sounds excellent! > >This also makes it possible to build and accelerated (JOGL) backend. >Depending on the granularity of the API, it might be more or less >suited... as one would possible not send individual triangles of a >surface to JOGL, but let JOGL itself figure out how to draw a (curved) >surface... But I guess the same might hold for PovRay... > > > I don't know what JOGL is, but for isosurfaces the API delivers the vertex list and face list, so the exporter can do with that what it wants. But that is the "triangles". How else would you deliver "the curved surface"? Bob >Egon > > > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 |