Re: [Mesa3d-dev] bug in sphere normal

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Stephen Tse wrote:
> 
> 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?

Sample Implementation.  http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/


> > 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?

I've got the conformance tests.


> 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.

Where'd you get that idea?  Glean's been pretty active in the past
few months.

-Brian