RE: [Chromium-dev] Native and Chromium

[Schuyler, D. <Dav...@di...>]

Hi,

Yeah, Greg Humphreys mentioned some similar ideas outside of the list.  I
don't think I'm the one to write a tee spu, and I don't think it will do
what I'm looking for.  

I'm looking to have a couple of local windows (rendering scenes 'a' and 'b',
for example) and have a half dozen chromium render servers (rendering scenes
'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', and 'h').  In this setup, none of the scenes would
be the same data (well the world might be the same, but all the
camera/viewports would be different).

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Ahern [mailto:sea...@ll...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:22 PM
To: chr...@li...
Subject: Re: [Chromium-dev] Native and Chromium


Brian Paul wrote:
> "Schuyler, Dave" wrote:
> > Every now and then I come across code in chromium that talks about
> > rendering to a native window or a chromium window.  Does anyone have an
> > example of rendering to a local/native window and a chromium window
> > from within the same app (at the same time)?
>
> None of the Chromium demos do that.

One thing that I'd like to see someday along these lines is the following:

I want to put together a "tee" SPU, hooked up to a render SPU and a
tilesort SPU, all three within a client node.  The tilesorter would
distribute primitives on the network like normal.

                     tilesort  -/\/-  network
                    /
           App - tee
                    \
                     render

The render SPU would be told to use the application's window for rendering,
rather than creating its own.

All OpenGL submitted by the client would then appear both in its normal
window and also wherever the tilesorter was configured to go.

This is theoretically possible, though I've heard some stumbling blocks
discussed here.  I seem to recall someone mentioning that having the
renderspu display to a window that's not its own has problems under
Windows.

I don't know that there aren't symbol lookup issues with a tee spu.


While I'm dreaming...  the holy grail would be to have the render SPU
accept imagery from something else, probably out of band.  This would allow
scalable remote rendering and compositing, with the final image displayed
back into the app without the user even having to know that Chromium's
doing the acceleration.  A few of us have talked about this before, and
have identified that there are a number of roadblocks.  But it's a nice
dream for now!

-Sean

__
sea...@ll...
God bless America.  And shed His Grace on thee.

_______________________________________________
Chromium-dev mailing list
Chr...@li...
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chromium-dev