Re: [Gnu3dkit-dev] Strings and parameter lists

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:42  Uhr, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
> What if we had a means to convert a RIB file, as a single string or 
> data stream, to and from a dictionary or NSString? I am still thinking 
> that using RIB as our "native" file format is not very Cocoa-like.

Well, you could do that, but the beauty IMHO would be to have an API 
which permits you to render a RIB directly. But I am not sure we want 
this at all because first, the 3DKit is a scene graph and should thus 
work this way and not directly via renderer bypassing the scene graph 
and second, we would then have to make sure to at least understand 
everything which is in a RIB.

But having a render action which does produce a RIB would be cool as 
you could then process this further using other, already existing 
tools. As an example you could simply pipe the 3DKit's output into 
other CLI renderers' input.

-Phil
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