Re: [Gnu3dkit-dev] G3DRenderer.h

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 10:10  Uhr, Gerard Iglesias wrote:
> > But I am not lucky with this current API, it looks to heavy weight, 
> > what do you think (to be consequent even the numVerts in the above 
> > example should be part of the params dictionary...)?
>
> I don't think so, it is absolutely OK for me, put only the optional 
> parameters in the dictionary.
>
> Sure this is a heavy weight API for the renderer, but Cocoa API shows 
> (compared to other object API) that it is often better to have a class 
> that make a lot of things in place of getting so many classes that you 
> don't where to start...

To me what matters most is consistency and ease of use at this level. I 
am not yet convinced that the suggested API addresses these requests as 
much as it should.

> And it make sense to have the complete low level graphics API in the 
> 'graphic context' classe, here the GI3DRenderer one.
>
> And we can add that the fact to mimic Renderman API, will help people 
> to capture the spirit of our API because thare are some examples on 
> the net :)

I agree :-)

> On the rib file parser front I am going to implement a solution that 
> will be generic enough to allow specific treatment of the rib file 
> content, one of will be to get a straight and simple 3D scene graph 
> creation.
>
> I intent to make public my work around ANTLR with ObjC and the RIB 
> file format, and I am wondering if we can put the web page I am going 
> to build on the 3DKit site or do I put them on my own site ?

You can add content to the current site - either directly or via 
another page - if you plan to release it together w/ the GNU 3DKit (or 
a utility lib) under the LGPL or GPL. Just checkout the HTML tree from 
savannah and add you stuff there. Maybe you first want to contact me 
privately and let me know more about what you want to put online?

-Phil
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