Re: RFD: The next gen 3DKit

On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 09:00  Uhr, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 12:06  PM, Philippe C.D. Robert 
> wrote:
>
>> I just commited a simple info file to CVS listing some aspects of the 
>> next gen 3DKit, some dependencies, design ideas and so on. This is 
>> only the beginning and will hopefully sometimes turn into a complete 
>> document. Right now I'd like to keep it simple (and in ASCII) though. 
>> Feel free to add content (but please keep it simple, do not write 
>> long books) or discuss open issues in this list.
>>
> I can't find the file in CVS -- I found it on the website well enough. 
> RenderKit has sharper boundaries now; that works for me. The challenge 
> now seems to be to define an interface to the renderer bundles that 
> works smoothly and efficiently (and quickly).

The file is in the HTML part of the tree - as is the entire website.

> Do you want to concentrate on RK and design the interface abstractly, 
> or build RK and a basic renderer side by side, designing the interface 
> through iterative implementations?

The GL renderer will certainly be the first proof of concept. Although 
the challenge will be not to fall back into GLisms. In general I tend 
to favour to design first - but of course this does not mean that the 
interface is thereafter fix forever.

-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
http://www.nice.ch/~phip