* Hugo van der Merwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-06 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : openscenegraph > Version : 0.9.2 > Upstream Author : Robert Osfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.openscenegraph.org/ > * License : LGPL > Description : C++/OpenGL based graphics development library. > > The OpenSceneGraph is an Open Source (LGPL), Cross Platform (Windows, > Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris), Standard C++ and OpenGL based > graphics development library. Uses range from visual simulation, > games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and graphics > research.
Between reading this description and reading the website, I still have no idea what this library actually DOES. I've done a fair amount of OpenGL programming, so I should have enough background knowledge to know what this library does by reading the description. That it is a "graphics development library" tells me nothing. Just spit it out! Something like "whereas OpenGL deals only with individual polygons, OpenSceneGraph allows you to render a group of 3d models that comprise an entire 'scene.' It handles details such as backface culling and shading that a 3d renderer would usually have to handle manually." If that's what it actually does (I'm still not entirely sure). Josh -- Josh Haberman Debian GNU/Linux developer