Re: [Mesa3d-dev] bug in sphere normal

[Stephen T. <ste...@sf...>]

Brian Paul <br...@va...> writes:

> Well, when I first wrote gluSphere() I didn't have the SI code to
> compare to.  And, I don't recall comparing SGI's gluSphere to Mesa's
> gluSphere at that level of attention.

What's SI code? standard code?

> 
> If you rotate/transform the sphere in the right way, you may find
> that Mesa's gluSphere looks "more accurate".

Okay =).


> > BTW, does the conformance test (which covers GL part for sure) cover
> > GLU and GLUT parts as well?
> 
> GLU, but not in too much detail.  GLUT has its own set of self-test
> programs.

The conformance test is available only to the OpenGL licensee, right?
How can Mesa get access to it? Via your company, valinux?

Do you know if there is an open-source equivalent for the test suits?
glean is one of them, but it's not actively maintained anymore, I'm
afriad. 


- Stephen