Rick Weyrauch (rweyrauch++at++paradigmsim.com)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:09:26 -0500
With the advent of Fahrenheit, it there a problem with SGI releasing the
OpenGL++ spec to the public?
Rick
Steve Baker wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Brian Corrie wrote:
>
> > We were hoping to see an initial
> > release of OpenGL++ in the next couple of months, but according to the OpenGL
> > ARB meeting minutes from March 9-10
> >
> > (http://www.opengl.org/ARB/Notes/Meeting1.2/meeting_note_10-03-98.html)
> >
> > Kurt Akeley (at least so the minutes say, I wasn't there...) says that "SGI
> > will no longer be able to push OpenGL++ (though they have no objection to
> > others picking up the work). Resources are committed to work with Microsoft
> > and HP on the scene graph and large model visualization APIs." Does this mean
> > that we will be waiting for the Fahrenheit scene graph as opposed to OpenGL++?
>
> I wonder if anyone would be interested in a cooperative 'freeware' Mesa++ (ie
> an OpenGL++ implemented on top of Mesa and provided under the same licensing
> conditions)?
>
> Kurt's statement suggests that whatever OpenGL++ materials are out there
> should be freely available. Given that, I don't think it would be too
> hard to write such a thing.
>
> I have an OpenGL++ spec (probably out of date now) - but I can't do
> anything with it since it was provided under NDA.
>
> I have been using Performer (another OpenGL scene graph API) under IRIX,
> it would be nice to have a suitably Open scenegraph API to replace it on
> Windoze and Linux platforms.
>
> If anyone at SGI is listening and would be prepared to release a non-NDA
> OpenGL++ spec, I'm sure that would be interesting to many people on this
> list.
>
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