From: vanevery@blarg.net (Brandon J. Van Every) Subject: Re: DESIGN: Linux and VR Development Date: 11 Feb 1996 04:49:06 GMT Message-ID: <4fjsg2$nb6@guysmiley.blarg.net> Organization: Blarg! Online Services 206/441-9109 King Under The Hill (antell@rintintin.colorado.edu) wrote: : Hello VR people. : I post this message in hopes that I can hook up with others who are : using linux as a VR development platform for the PC. Linux is a far : more powerful 32bit OS for the PC than DOS or WINDOZE. For those of : you who have not heard of it, it is a public domain Unix OS for the PC : and it aims at POSIX compliance. How do you justify the statement that Linux is "more powerful" in the VR arena, when there are hardly any general-purpose 3d tools or libraries supported on the Linux platform? You might be interested in my Free3d project. It seeks to change all of that. Also, it is not a Linux-specific project, as I have stringent efficiency/portability goals. If you wanted to make your VR drivers work with Free3d, that would be a very interesting proposition. Read my web pages for details about the Free3d project. : I have been able to port everything to Linux as well using : Mesa(OpenGL). Just so you know, Free3d is not an OpenGL support project. Its primary design criteria are: speed, speed, SPEED, 100% efficiency, and 100% portability. From a software-only standpoint, OpenGL does not fit the bill IMHO. At any rate, I'm not going to debate that point here, as these issues are clearly delineated in my web pages. (Nor do I wish to engage in any e-mail debates on the matter, I have no time for it.) I just thought I'd let you know in advance what Free3d is aiming at. Cheers, -- Brandon J. Van Every | I am looking for work in the Seattle area. | Check out ZDEMO, my 100% efficient, 100% portable 3d Computer Graphics | 3d lib, at . C++ UNIX X11 Motif | E-mail: vanevery@blarg.net