A few people have developed custom renderers for DX in the past to drive immersive devices. (They participate in this mailgroup, and perhaps would care to comment.) In addition, Chikai Ohazama of SGI wrote a custom volume rendering module about 18 months ago. He used OpenGL volumizer specifically to leverage the Onyx hardware for volume rendering. The last time I saw it was on a 16-way, multiple IR pipe system at Supercomputing'98. I asked him a few month ago if he was interested in contributing it to OpenDX, and he said he would have to think about it. Admittedly, there are issues of how relevant this hardware is for specific types of data, but that's a separate discussion. Since these were done with commercial DX, the "closed" route was taken of writing a separate module. That approach can still be taken, which has some advantages. On the other hand, viewing and interaction is in a separate window...
In addition, Greg Abram added some support for Stereographics (Crystal Eyes) with OpenGL in OpenDX. There was some discussion about it a few months ago and he posted the documentation. Jean-christophe Penalva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 03/16/2000 11:45:31 AM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] cc: Subject: [opendx-dev] Is there a "big picture" for the source of ODX Hello, my question is simple, is there somewhere a document about the source (directory, description, link between files). We'd like to modify some parts of the source for 2 reasons. 1 : we'd like to see if it's possible to use Volume rendering with hardware option on us SGI Onyx2. By now we are not sure that this is possible without completly recode the application... so we're looking for explanations or descriptions of the structure of the source. 2 : SGI has developped a library (MPU) for use of their cave (and others periph stereo ...). The purppose is to keep the "same" application (that genereate OpenGL) and use it independantly with 1 pipe, 2 pipes .... the pipe is the periph hardware on Onyx2 to use for generating images. What do you think of these ideas ? Is it possible for someone who know OpenGL to recode the parts of OpenDX ? Thank you for your answers, please cc to my email adress. ################################################## Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Superieur CINES Montpellier France 33 4 67 14 14 14 Fax 33 4 67 52 37 63 http://www.cines.fr mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
