Re: [Fresco-devel] status Task 150 work out a display server prototype on top of OSG

Hi Ryan,

Ryan Patrick O'Hara wrote:
> I am curious about the status of fresco in particular the status of task
> 150.  Has there been any work done on it yet? Is there a prototype yet?
> What about other prototypes using other scenegraph frameworks? Other
> languages? What should the API look like? Are people still interested?

I'm definitely interested, in particular if the interest is shared by
more people. Nicolas and I have touched on the issue (task150) some
months ago, but afaict nothing has been done yet.

> I am interested in helping with this but it
> would be better if someone had the higher level details. Perhaps some
> discussion of it could begin here.

sure. My proposition was (and still is) to wrap OSG into a client/server
framework by means of boost.python and omniORBpy. (To reiterate: I'm
neither fixated on python nor CORBA, but such a setup seems to be quite
simple to get the ball rolling and being able to concentrate on the
real issues.)

This would allow the experimentation with a lightweight scenegraph API
that can be used over the wire, i.e. something like Fresco's existing
API without all the scene graph traversal stuff (i.e. no drawing, no
picking, no region management).

What do you think ?

		Stefan