[rescue] Sunblade 100 question

[joshua d boyd]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:15:32PM -0500, Reagen B . Ward wrote:
> I mistyped; meant interactive toolkit, not renderer.  My mistake.  GL is
> almost exclusively useful as a renderer with some interaction.  Terrible
> for things like CAD and scientific visualization

Mind explaining why it is bad for those activities?

> good for animation,

Err, I'm assuming that you are talking about animation previewing, as
opposed to the animation seen in FF:TSW.

> bad for high-quality movie stuff.

Is it really?  I'm somewhat under the impression that Inferno and Piranha 
did their rendering with GL.  Of course, the companies won't say that
officially in places that I can find, but it seems I'm not alone in
thinking this.  But that doesn't help support my claim, because there are
also lots of people who think that Toy Story was done with OpenGL.  Bleh.
people who seem

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Joshua D. Boyd