From: ballard andrews (andrews@ridgefield.sdr.slb.com)
Date: 04/20/2000 13:32:31
Not that anybody asked, but IMHO
this decision is what all but killed Volumizer.
O.k. so the performance would be poor on platforms without
3Dtexture mapping and SGI wants to sell their hardware,
but you guys did have plans to release Volumizer
outside of Fahrenheit (the unreleased Sun version).
I would argue that since one of SGI's chief duties is
to maintain/enhance Performer for the DOD
and Volumizer isn't used for realtime vis sim,
they should go ahead and release the source code
(the market for pretty pictures is much smaller
that the market for death and destruction).
Since the whole Performer API took only three weeks
to port to Linux how long could it take to port Volumizer?
So all the eggs go into the Linux basket instead of java?
regards,
-ba
ex-(Performer+Inventor+Volumizer+OpenGL+ImageVision+Viewkit) user
Harold Treat wrote:
>
> In response to a question from Florian Schroecker.
>
> We agree that it would be useful to be able to use Volumizer to build
> volume rendering applications and view the results of those applications
> on a variety of desktop systems, including NT. However, instead of
> porting Volumizer to NT (and other platforms) our approach is to use our
> Onyx2 systems as visual servers for high performance rendering and to
> deliver the rendered images, via a network, to a variety of desktop
> clients. Last December, we introduced OpenGL Vizserver to provide this
> capability. Currently Vizserver currently supports IRIX clients, but we
> are working on support for other clients including Solaris, Linux, and
> NT.
>
> Information on OpenGL Vizserver is available at:
> www.sgi.com/software/vizserver/
>
> Harold Treat
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