On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:27:11PM +0200, David Oftedal wrote: | Too bad it's not as straightforward as I'd hoped... One would have | hoped the creators of the OpenGL standard would have prepared it for | steroscopic graphics right from the start, but perhaps they didn't think | it'd catch on? ...
It did have support for stereoscopic display from the very beginning -- optionally double-buffered left- and right- framebuffers. At one point there was discussion about automatically applying left- and right-eye transforms, but if I remember correctly there were just too many cases where it didn't work. (Probably the same sort of things that Brian mentioned in his note. Mirrors in scene, for example.) Higher-level libraries like Performer did automatic stereo display, and because they had access to the entire scene graph they did a better job than the low-level API could. For example, they handled culling and load-balancing more efficiently. So adding anything more than the basic mechanisms to OpenGL seemed like a questionable idea. (Until fundamental changes in graphics hardware would make it more practical.) | it'd catch on? For the time being I guess I'll just enjoy my bzflag in | 3D... B) Well, at least it's a good start. :-) Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
