POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : New CA Simulation : Re: Thanks! Server Time
3 Sep 2024 23:25:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Thanks!  
From: Darren New
Date: 2 Feb 2011 12:57:26
Message: <4d499b06@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Wait - it's written in *Java* and yet it can access the *graphics card*??
> How is that even possible?

It's not. It's using a library interface between Java and OpenGL probably 
written in C or C++. Hence the security restrictions people were talking about.

The CA is written in Java, but the graphics code is still in C-ish and 
shader language and such.

> does them in realtime, even though that's clearly impossible.

Back to that again? ;-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."


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