Shaping
Thu, 08 May 2008 21:07:41 -0700
>> It seems you have already considered adding DoubleTransforms to OpenSG, >> but >> later the idea was dumped. >> I must ask: why? > > The problem is the cost. The transformations themselves are not too > expensive, > but the bounding box and culling parts are used very often, and in many > different operations, so just switching them to double would have a > noticeable > impact. So you can't just do that, you have to support both single and > double > versions of everything, and have a semi-intelligent way to switch between > them. > In the end it seemed like a pretty serious amount of work, and only rather > few > people were interested in it. As the page says we might revisit that for > 2, but > unless there is a fairly clear interest form the users it might not be all > that > high up in the priority list. I am interested in having 64-bit calculations everywhere, as an option. Shaping ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list Opensg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users