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- From: ercolessi@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
- Subject: Re: Getting GL to X terminals
- References: <31546@adm.brl.mil>
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- Reply-To: ercolessi@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
- Organization: MRL - UIUC
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:03:11 GMT
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- In article <31546@adm.brl.mil>, andersen@marvin.ama.ttu.edu (Kim Andersen) writes:
- |>In article <1992Jul22.230358.3686@microunity.com>, jsw@microunity.com
- |>(Jeff Weinstein) writes:
- |>>
- |>> I think what would be really useful in this discussion is explanation
- |>> from customers as to how they expect to use GL rendering to X
- |>> terminals.
- |>>
- |>I have several IRISes. I have more than several researchers who need
- |>to use these machines for molecular modeling. I have many academic-
- |>domain LARGE programs for molecular modeling. I cannot even begin to
- |>convert these from GL-code to X-code. If I could run these programs
- |>UNCHANGED on X-terminals (yes, I know it would be slow), every one of
- |>our researchers could have his own X-terminal to work on, rather than
- |>waiting in line for an IRIS.
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- I have GL codes that do 2D graphics. They were written in GL essentially
- because development time is much less than using X for people (like me)
- not familiar with X protocols etc., and because a good GL engine can
- comfortably animate them at ~10 frames/sec
- The possibility to run them on X terminals would be very welcome,
- and in this case speed would be a real issue only when animation is
- involved.
-
- Moreover, in my particular case to go in front of the Iris implies
- an intercontinental flight ...
- --
- Furio Ercolessi
- Materials Research Laboratory | Intl School for Advanced Studies
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Trieste, Italy
- ercolessi@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu | furio@sissa.it
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