rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) (10/06/89)
Has anyone ported the Stardent Dore 3-D graphics language to a SPARC station? Stardent divides its ports into two categories: dynamic (realtime gourand) and production (raytracing). Their official distribution has a dynamic Stardent TITAN and Sun GP2 ports, and production sunview and rasterfile ports. I am looking for a cgsix, i.e. SPARC CXP, dynamic port.
jesse@ut-emx.UUCP (Jesse W. Driver) (10/08/89)
In article <143@med.Stanford.EDU>, rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) writes: > > Has anyone ported the Stardent Dore 3-D graphics language to a SPARC station? > > Stardent divides its ports into two categories: dynamic (realtime gourand) and > production (raytracing). Their official distribution has a dynamic Stardent > TITAN and Sun GP2 ports, and production sunview and rasterfile ports. > I am looking for a cgsix, i.e. SPARC CXP, dynamic port. I believe that the ray-tracing portion of Dore' should work on the SPARC station as of release 2.2, however there is a need for Dore' programmers to get the dynamic renderers on the new architectures as they emerge. The dilemma for Dore' is that gouraud shading and hidden surface removal among other things take a powerful graphics processor to accomplish an image in a short amount of time. So they concentrated on the more powerful graphics accelerators such as the Sun GP2. I've heard that they are nearing release of a generic X-windows Dore' port which should make ports available for a wide range of machines immediately thereafter. The Dore' mailing list has been established to allow the discussion of Dore' futures, as well as "just questions". To be put on the mailing list send a message with your name and email address to "dore-request@ardent.com". To send messages to the mailing list, address email to "dore@ardent.com". -Jesse Driver Pres., Dore User Group