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- PERFORMER for 5.* SYSTEMS
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- This version of Performer is designed solely for the 5.* OS and will not load
- on systems running an OS preceding 5.*.
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- INSTALLATION NOTE
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- The user should be familiar with "inst" in order to install Performer.
- You may step through inst to install only those subsystems you wish to
- install.
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- ____________________ TERMS OF DISTRIBUTION __________________________
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- The files in this directory hierarchy are a special subset of the
- IRIS Performer visual simulation software development toolkit. It is
- being distributed in this form to support programmers involved in the
- Indigo Games Contest.
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- __________________________ OVERVIEW _________________________________
-
- The IRIS Performer software development environment supports
- programmers implementing high performance graphics applications on
- Silicon Graphics products. It offers both high level facilities for
- visual simulation and virtual reality tasks and an application-neutral
- high-performance hardware-oriented graphics toolkit.
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- The outer application specific layer of IRIS Performer implements the
- tasks needed by visual simulation applications: it performs culling,
- assuring that only potentially viewable geometry is sent to the
- graphics hardware; it controls multiple display channels; it provides
- fast intersection tests with simulation databases; and most
- importantly, it orchestrates all of this in parallel with rendering on
- multiple processor IRIS systems.
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- The lower-level rendering portion of IRIS Performer is designed for
- maximum performance: it's efficient data structures reflect the details
- of CPU, cache, and memory system architectures; it's tuned rendering
- loops convert the system CPU into an optimized data movement engine;
- and it's optimized state management system minimizes over head.
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- IRIS Performer provides a high-performance portability path across the
- Silicon Graphics product line. The low level library is implemented as
- a hardware-specific shared library, so applications based on IRIS
- Performer can achieve optimal performance on graphics systems from XS
- to RealityEngine without changes or recompilation.
-
- The product includes a programmer's guide and printed man pages, as
- well as on-line man pages, test and demonstration programs, and a
- complete real-time visual simulation application. This application is
- provided in source form as an example for developers building real-time
- simulation systems using IRIS Performer. Also included are several
- databases and source code for database readers to load them.
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- For more information on IRIS Performer contact Michael Jones at (415)
- 390-1455 (mtj@sgi.com); for information about SGI systems for Visual
- Simulation, contact David Hughes (415) 390-3519 (davidh@asd.sgi.com);
- and, for SGI solutions in Virtual Reality applications, contact Joshua
- Mogal (415) 390-1460 (mogal@asd.sgi.com).
-
- Silicon Graphics Corporate Office 2011 N. Shoreline Boulevard Mountain
- View, CA 94043 (415) 960-1980
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- Specifications are subject to change without notice. Silicon Graphics,
- the Silicon Graphics logo, and IRIS are registered trademarks of
- Silicon Graphics, Inc. IRIS Performer, Indigo Elan, RealityEngine,
- GeometryPipeline and GL Graphics Library are trademarks of Silicon
- Graphics, Inc.
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- __________________________ PACKING LIST _____________________________
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- README This file
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- data Geometry and texture definitions
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- doc Documentation about IRIS Performer
- datasheet Overview of IRIS Performer
- forum IRIS Performer overview from 1992 Developer's Forum
- guide IRIS Performer Programming Guide
- quick IRIS Performer Quick-Reference Card
- NOTE: These documents do not get installed.
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- include IRIS Performer header files
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- lib IRIS Performer libraries (static debug only)
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- man Manual pages
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- src Sample programs
- examples example programs
- perfly complete simulation example with GUI
- pfflt loader for FLIGHT (v11) databases
- pfsgi loader for SGO and BIN databases
- pguide programs from IRIS Performer Programming Guide
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- ___________________ NEED MORE INFORMATION ? _________________________
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- Give me a call.
-
- Michael T. Jones
- Advanced Graphics Division
- Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
- 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
- Mtn. View, CA 94039-7311
-
- Email: mtj@sgi.com
- Voice: (415) 390-1455
- FAX: (415) 965-2658
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