Re: 3DeLight

On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:23  Uhr, Gerard Iglesias wrote:
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 08:24 AM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
>
>> Sort of, but my (initial) idea was to convert the stuff into 
>> Objective-C methods which are declared in the renderer class and 
>> subclassed by concrete renderers. But maybe this is a stupid idea and 
>> we should just take what is there - in C (for the sake of 
>> compatibility and performance).
>
> Ok, the C API is interesting and necessary because we need to code 
> efficiently in the core of 3D object in certain case.
>
> This bring in my head the comparison with NSBezierPath, we need low 
> and high level API to draw geometry : in certain case I use the 
> NSBezierPath method to draw Quartz elements and in othe cases I need 
> to go down the CG... functions.

I agree more or less, but do you think we should really provide a 1 to 
1 mapping of a subset of RenderMan?

-Phil
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