Some of us on the Java 3D team work very closely with the OpenGL group
at Sun. And Sun is active with regards to the OpenGL ARB. We are aware of
the work that 3dlabs is doing. I think it is pretty safe to say that
just about every company that makes 3d graphics hardware is doing research
in this area.
Doug Twilleager
Sun Microsystems
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>Does anybody from java3d team works on possible opengl 2.0 spec ? A lot
>of stuff mentioned in 3dlabs presentation seems very similar to what
>java3d 1.4 is trying to do (especially shader language stuff). I think
>it would be great if same stuff could be reused - even if this would
>mean kind of moving java3d to point of being a scenegraph over raw opengl.
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>Maybe create official java opengl binding for 2.0 and implement java3d
>in more or less transparent way over it ? There will be problem with
>adding real extensibility to java3d without exposing internal stuff and
>I don't think that creating another low-level api would be good. There
>is a note in 3dlabs speech - 'are C binding enough?'. Maybe ask them to
>think also about java.
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>You know, with official java binding there is a chance of getting
>specialized driver from manufacturer, instead of going through java->C
>bindings, which in fact are sometimes very inefficient (especially if it
>comes to large blocks of data). I would not count on that, but there is
>always a chance...
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>Artur
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