The future of Performer
Tagore D. Smith (tdsmith++at++escher.cs.umass.edu)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:11:18 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, I was hoping that someone on the performer team might be willing to
comment on some possible future developments of the API.
I am currently writing an application to be used as a tool for the
Computer Vision Lab at the University of Massachusetts. It will be used to
train an interactive terrain classifier. The datasets are large, and the
application requires fast increamental texture updates, so Performer is
pretty much the only API that will really do what we want; we need
facilities like clipmapping and the pfASD node.
The program will be useful as an in-house development tool, but we
would really like to be able to share it with the end-users of the
classification system. We have an Onyx iR; forestry services and
environmental organizations in the third world won't.
From what I hear, SGI is at least thinking about making NT
workstations. What I am wondering is if there are any plans to port
Performer to NT. I know that NT is not as suitable as IRIX for the sorts
of applications that Performer is most commonly used for, and that the
number of possible configurations for NT workstations would makee this
difficult, but it would be nice to see.
Tagore Smith
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