Hi Martin, I'm basically in agreement with you but unfortunately right now I'm just about to head out of town for the holidays and my internet connection will be sporadic. The points you raise require more than a quick answer so I may not get back to you until early next week.
I appreciate your initiative on this. Arthur On 12/22/2010 10:33 AM, Martin Baker wrote: > Hi Arthur, > > On Wednesday 22 Dec 2010 06:07:21 Arthur Ralfs wrote: >> I've committed Martin Baker's Scenegraph graphics framework under >> ar-sandbox/contrib/scenegraph. > > That's great, I am looking forward to trying it once its on openSUSE Build > Service. > >> I've also included the input file >> scene.input to compile everything and input files to run the examples >> from Martin's website here >> >> http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/standards/program/mycode/graph/examples >> /index.htm >> >> and here >> >> http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/standards/program/mycode/graph/tutorial >> /index.htm > > How difficult would it be to put these pages on HyperDoc? (personally I like > the idea of HyperDoc pages as HTML as it might be able to be rendered by more > standard library code but I suspect i'm in the minority on that issue so > perhaps I shouldn't try to reopen that debate?). > > Also, what do you think it would take to make this graphics framework the > default graphics framework? I guess it would need the ability to render itself > directly from openaxiom? Again I would have thought that some form of standard > OpenGL library code should be available? > > It just seemed to me that the combination of: > * The new C++ code, > * some standard HTML code library, > * new graphics framework + standard OpenGL library code, > would help remove a lot of older messy code and make openaxiom more > streamlined and easier to add new features. However I don't claim to > understand all the issues here and I'm sure it would be a lot harder than > that. > > Anyway, thanks again for putting this in openaxiom. > > Martin Baker > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
