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I am not sure if this will be of much direct help to morphometricians, but I hope it will eventually benefit the morphometrics community. We have just posted for download a new, open-source program, Morpheus_JOGL, providing examples of OpenGL Shading Language graphics programming in Java (via the JOGL binding). The program and all related files (documentation, source, data, etc.) can be downloaded from: http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/software/misc/index.html <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dJzV3D6sD1Y/WgmmzPjuv-I/AAAAAAAAAYU/KfC1DQwJq_QJSI75xLosZeCANTdYjN-3QCLcBGAs/s1600/02_Morpheus_JOGL.png> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dJzV3D6sD1Y/WgmmzPjuv-I/AAAAAAAAAYU/KfC1DQwJq_QJSI75xLosZeCANTdYjN-3QCLcBGAs/s1600/02_Morpheus_JOGL.png> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dJzV3D6sD1Y/WgmmzPjuv-I/AAAAAAAAAYU/KfC1DQwJq_QJSI75xLosZeCANTdYjN-3QCLcBGAs/s1600/02_Morpheus_JOGL.png> Detelina Stoyanova had written a wonderful JOGL/GLSL library for me to incorporate into Morpheus et al., but actually integrating that into the code required more technical expertise than I possessed. So, I needed to actually teach myself GLSL programming, which is non-trivial. I was frustrated, too, with other example programs that either were in C/C++, and did not deal with the few JOGL-specific things necessary to get started, or seemed to show off too many features and fancy techniques of which one could take advantage. I wanted basic instruction. So, I wrote Morpheus_JOGL. Morpheus_JOGL builds on Morpheus_eProbe by adding a series of dialogs. Each dialog inherits capabilities from those preceding it and adds but one or two new, basic features. The general inheritance sequence is: - set up and draw white triangle on black background - add color - add animation - adjust for window aspect - create more complex geometry (cube) from triangles - perspective and orthogonal projection - add ambient, diffuse, and specular lighting - complex, external geometry (skull) - text (drawing text is not part of the GLSL specification or usual discussion) - mouse control * here, the dialog inheritance trifurcates (branch 1) - multiple, random points (trivial fiddling with the drawing mode) - multiple, random line segments (more fiddling) (branch 2) - multiple, random spheres (actual multiple geometries) - multiple, random rods (non-trivial positioning and orientation) (branch 3) - mapping images as textures. There are a number of "Hot keys" that allow for various features and modes to be changed or turned off. In addition to the program, there is a short User's Guide, but most documentation is provided through the included program JavaDoc, extensive source-code comments, and long, explicit variable names. Let me know if you have any problems - contact info and formatting is described in the User's Guide. Otherwise, if this sort of thing is your cup of tea, enjoy! -ds -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
