POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : GL : Re: GL Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:29:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: GL  
From: gridaine Loic
Date: 13 Mar 2002 08:28:00
Message: <3C8F54F1.53AF9DEE@etudiant.univ-mlv.fr>
Ok tks.


> 
> In article <3C8E2D67.D70857A3@etudiant.univ-mlv.fr>,
>  gridaine Loic <lgr### [at] etudiantuniv-mlvfr> wrote:
> 
> >       I want to remake the ray-tracer whith GL and i would like to find all
> > informations wich could help me if u've got something, tks before.
> 
> GL? You mean OpenGL?
> Allowing POV to render previews in OpenGL has been discussed a lot, I
> suggest you look through the older messages in this group. It is much
> more difficult then it might look at first, since most shapes are traced
> directly instead of being reduced to triangles, and OpenGL can't deal
> with the objects directly. There is at least one other person looking at
> doing this, and I'm thinking of making an attempt myself when POV 3.5
> and the tesselation patch are both available, but doing anything right
> now would be kind of pointless, it would become obsolete almost
> immediately.
> 
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> Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
> POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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