Jenny Zhao (zhz++at++dandan.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:34:01 -0800
Yeah. That is very true. Sharon and Chris Insinger have posted
some detailed reason for this on info-performer:
Date: Thu Apr 23 23:12:12 1998
Subject: OpenGL++ -> Fahrenheit (was Performer at ITEC)
FSG with SGI's real-time vis sim extensions is the perferred
long term API solution on NT.
Performer group is responsible for these extensions.
While FSG provides a solid, extensible scene graph architecture,
the extensions, version 1.0,
will handle process synchronizations, pipes, channels,
and other basic real-time functions on top of FSG.
With these two libraries, you will be able to
have the core performer functionalities.
The next version of the extensions will have support on
more advanced vis sim features.
The scheduled release for both FSG and the extensions 1.0
is in the August/Sept. 1999 time frame.
At the mean time, like Angus mentioned in his last posting,
libraries such as VegaNT do provide
good interim NT solutions for vis sim customers, and they are
quite welcome by us. I believe as we speak, partners such as
Multigen-Paradigm are loading their demos onto our
visual workstations. MPI will migrate Vega onto FSG when it
comes out. Please contact them or post on info-vega for details.
In summary, we like to see VegaNT and other similar libraries
to provide short term NT solutions.
FSG is the future scene graph API. The first version of
real time vis sim extensions will help the "not-so-serious-vis-sim"
Performer customers to move to FSG world.
The second version of the SGI extensions will help
the serious vis sim customers to port to FSG.
That version will come out some time in 2001.
The next release of Performer, Performer2.3, will support
all the vis sim features on SGI's next generation hardware.
Performer is still the only vis sim API on SGI machines
and will be actively developed on for the next 2-3 years.
It will definitely be supported for many more years,
as long as there are Performer customers.
We are looking for suggestions on a good name for
the real time vis sim extensions, i.e. Performer on FSG.
Whoever suggests the chosen name will get the
very first "Performer on FSG" T-shirt! :)
If you would like to be our alpha customer, we still have
some room open on our alpha list. Please talk with me
or our product mananger Chris Insinger.
Jenny Zhao zhz++at++engr.sgi.com 650 933-5091
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