Svend Tang-Petersen (svend++at++rex.copen.sgi.com)
Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:10:06 +0100
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 23:43:38 -0800
From: mtj++at++babar.asd.sgi.com (Michael Jones)
To: info-performer++at++sgi.sgi.com
Subject: IRIS Performer 2.0 Available
IRIS Performer 2.0 is now available!
IRIS Performer 2.0 has been released to SGI's manufacturing
group and is now available worldwide. The following message
describes the new part numbers, tells how to obtain further
information, and provides a short overview. We are pleased
with the product's many enhancements and hope that it helps
you achieve new levels of excellence in your work.
We'd like to thank those brave souls who helped us with the
(slightly protracted) beta-test phase of this release. The
efforts of these testing groups have significantly improved
the quality of both the software and the documentation.
Sincerely
The IRIS Performer Team
Product Codes:
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SC4-PERF-2.0
IRIS Performer 2.0 Software and Documentation
Includes a CD (a very full CD, >1GB installed)
Includes a Programmer's Guide (600 Pages)
Includes C and C++ Man Pages (700+ Pages each)
All documentation provided in online and printed form
(This is the "real" product, what most people buy)
M4-PERF-2.0
IRIS Performer 2.0 Documentation Only
Includes a Programmer's Guide (600 Pages)
Includes C and C++ Man Pages (700+ Pages each)
(Need extra printed documentation sets?)
SR4-PERF-2.0
IRIS Performer 2.0 Right To Use
For people who need multiple development stations but
don't need a CD and Manuals for each one. (This is for
the second through Nth copies, not the first)
SV4-PERF-2.0-10
IRIS Performer 2.0 ISV Ten-Pack
This is a volume package: ten copies of SC4-PERF-2.0
at an attractive price. This is designed for those
companies that bundle IRIS Performer development tools
with their products, but is a good deal for anyone who
needs four or more copies of Performer.
SCU4-PERF-2.0
IRIS Performer 2.0 Software Upgrade
This is a special lower-price for SC4-PERF-2.0 that is
made available to customers who already have licensed
IRIS Performer 1.2; it's not needed if you have a paid
software support contract, but if you don't, we tried
to save you a bit of money here.
Upgrade Policies:
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If you have a software support contract with SGI's Global
Customer Satisfaction Division (previously known as CSD)
than you can expect your IRIS Performer 2.0 upgrade in the
mail within the next month or so. If you're in a hurry, or
want to verify/change the shipping address for the upgrade,
you should check with GCS by phone or email. Note that the
upgrade includes the CD only, which has all of the manuals
(programmer's guide and man-pages) on-line, but does not
include the printed books. If you want printed books you
will need to purchase M4-PERF-2.0 to get them.
If you don't have a current software support contract, then
shame on you! Now you'll have to buy a new version of the
product from your sales representative. Be sure to let them
know if you previously purchased 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2 -- it will
save you several hundred dollars if you get SCU4-PERF-2.0
rather than SC4-PERF-2.0.
Quick Overview:
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IRIS Performer provides a powerful and extensible programming
interface for creating real-time visual simulation and other
interactive graphics applications.
IRIS Performer 2.0 provides significant new features and bridges
a number of transitional issues: support is now provided for
both IRIS GL and OpenGL graphics libraries, 32-bit (O32, N32) and
64-bit (N64) executables, a unified window management interface
(GL, GLX, and X), and language bindings for both C and C++.
IRIS Performer consists of two main libraries, libpf and libpr,
and four associated libraries, libpfdu, libpfdb, libpfui, and
libpfutil.
The basis of IRIS Performer is the performance rendering library
libpr, a low level library providing high speed rendering
functions based on pfGeoSets, efficient graphics state control
using pfGeoStates, and other application-neutral functions.
Layered above libpr is libpf, a real-time visual simulation
environment providing a high-performance multi-processing
database rendering system that takes best advantage of IRIS
symmetric multiprocessing CPU hardware.
The new database utility library libpfdu provides powerful
functions for defining both geometric and appearance attributes
of three dimensional objects, encourages sharing of state and
materials and generates efficient triangle strips from
independent polygonal input.
The new database library libpfdb uses the facilities of libpfdu,
libpf, and libpr to import database files in many popular
industry standard database formats. These loaders also serve as
a guide to developers creating new database importers.
The new libpfui library contains user interface building blocks
for creating manipulators and user-interface components common to
many interactive applications. This library has both a C and C++
API and is IRIS GL/OpenGL independent.
Completing the suite of libraries is libpfutil, the IRIS
Performer utility library. It provides a collection of
convenience routines implementing tasks such as smoke effects,
MultiChannel Option support, graphical user interface tools, X
and IRIS GL event collection and management, and traversal
functions.
For aid in application development, IRIS Performer includes
sample application source code ranging from simple programs to
illustrate particular features to the comprehensive, GUI-driven
file viewer perfly.
In addition to these SGI-developed tools, IRIS Performer also
includes a very large repository of sample code, databases,
games, and movies contributed by the Friends of Performer:
companies and individuals with services of general interest to
the IRIS Performer community. We encourage you to sample their
wares.
Detailed Information:
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For further information, check out the IRIS Performer WWW Page
in SiliconSurf. The URL is:
http://www.sgi.com/technology/Performer.html
Quite a bit of new information is (update is in progress as I write
this) available there, and details about the 2.0 release are being
added every day.
Be seeing you, Phone:415.933.1455 Fax:415.965.2658 M/S:8U-590
Michael T. Jones Silicon Graphics, Advanced Systems Division
mtj++at++sgi.com 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039-7311
"Du musst Amboss oder Hammer sein" -- Goethe
---End of forwarded mail from mtj++at++babar.asd.sgi.com (Michael Jones)
--Regards Svend
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