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

[Kevin L. <lac...@in...>]

Yes, E&S is still alive. I'm working for a company just across the
street from them. Though the rumor is they are getting out of the 3d
hardware business (at least here in Salt Lake).
Kevin
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Akbar
A. wrote:

> >Evans&Sutherland
> what happend to them?
> i remember when there name used to be everywhere,
> evans that sutherland this... are evans and sutherland still alive?
> 
> wow, i have sure learned a lot from this scene graph topic ;)
> i would have *never* guessed that PHIGS would come up in this thread.
> 
> peace,
> akbar A.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:gda...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Stephen J Baker
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:05 PM
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Algorithms] FW: [CsMain] Scene Graphs
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> 
> 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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