Re: [Algorithms] FW: [CsMain] Scene Graphs

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Maciej Sinilo wrote:

> > http://www.ndl.com/wpapers/bishop.html
> > It provides a good general overview of design philosophies and their
> > implementations for collision detection, culling, traversal, etc. without
> > delving into their API specifics.
> I find Performer's docs (from SGI's site) very interesting.
> They do delve into API specifics but you can also find some
> very nice general design ideas there. Many SGs seems to be
> more or less inspired by Performer's design.
 
Of course Performer was almost certainly inspired by Evans&Sutherland,
Compuscene and Star-Graphicon scene graph *structures* from the
1980's (which were often implemented in hardware BTW).

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