Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: [RFC] bump extension proposal..

[Holger W. <hwa...@ya...>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Brian Paul wrote:

> Holger Waechtler wrote:
> 
> I have some concerns about implementing these extensions:
>   1. Will any of these extensions map onto current hardware?  None that I
>      know of.

Shure, but if next generation cards may be designed for this. Do you know
a graphics chip designer we might ask ?


>   2. There are patent issues associated with them.

Who is owning the patents ?


>   3. They're somewhat complicated and I worry about implementation problems.

Yes, but the design is clean and we have the spec now. As far I have seen,
a new triangle rasterizer would have to be implemented, which interpolates 
normals and light texture parameters.


> I'd like to see an extension spec for NVIDIA's new per-pixel lighting feature.
> That might be more interesting/useful.

That's the other way. Who knows, where to get this ?

- Holger