Re: [Update REQ 5799]: OpenGL port of Geomview

[martz at shaft.fc.hp.com]

daemon at geom.umn.edu writes:
 > > I can't seem to ftp to geom.umn.edu.

 > Hmm, that's funny.  Your mail certainly reached us.  It's not a matter of
 > an HP firewall or something?

It's our problem alright. Sorry. Thanks for the quick reply.

 > Are HP's OpenGL libraries commercially available yet, or still in development?
 > I see now the Open GL FAQ mentions such libraries as "becoming available
 > March 1996".  We have some HP 712's here, with the smart 8-bit framebuffers
 > with simulated truecolor visuals.  (This isn't an offer for us to work on it,
 > but I'd like to know what's feasible.)

HP has had OpenGL with the Evans & Sutherland Freedon graphics for
some time now, but the price on those things makes it not a cost
effective solution for most people. Template has recently announced a
software implementation of OpenGL for HP, sanctioned by HP. I think
this is what you saw as available March 96. Along the same lines,
there is a public domain software implementation called Mesa which has
some bugs.

We're working on several OpenGL products which haven't been publically
announced yet. As I mentioned, a demo should be in order at
SIGGRAPH. We hope to put a beta out sometime this summer. I think the
real products will hit the market sometime in early 1997. You didn't
hear me say that. :-)

I'm not sure what kind of fb you have in your 712 (I haven't been here
at HP long enough to be an HP product-line guru yet). If the device
doesn't have 3D acceleration (doesn't sound like it) then the Template
implementation is probably your best bet.

   -paul		martz at shaft.fc.hp.com