On 1/17/06, Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 22:12 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan: > > On 1/16/06, Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 15:16 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Hello Sebastian, > > > > > > thank you for your answer. > > > > > > > As long as you don't do it naively there should be no problems. I.e. > > > > do not draw the terrain using the vertex-calls, but rather use > > > > vertex-arrays, > > > > > > Hmm, this will make it rather complex for my students since they have not > > > much experience with Haskell programming. In addition, where can I find > > > documentation about Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.GL.VertexArrays? > > > > I suppose here: > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/OpenGL/ > > Graphics-Rendering-OpenGL-GL-VertexArrays.html > > Hmm, this is not much of a documentation. No explanation of the types, > functions, etc. > > > But it should correspond fairly well to any general documentation on > > vertex arrays (www.opengl.org will surely have reference documentation > > somwhere). > > Yes, the only explanation on the above page is a pointer to the corresponding > section in the OpenGL specs. I hope that the correspondence between the > Haskell module and the chapter of the specs is rather tight. After all, the > Haskell module uses Haskell classes, Ptr values, etc. > > > > > or (better) vertex buffer objects. > > > > > > What's this? > > > > It's a fairly recent addition meant to be used instead of vertex > > arrays in most cases. I'm not sure if HOpenGL supports them, but I > > believe it does. > > At least from skimming the HOpenGL module list, I couldn't find anything which > has to do something with "buffers". >
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/OpenGL/Graphics-Rendering-OpenGL-GL-BufferObjects.html /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
