Re: [Gnu3dkit-discuss] gnuDKit.info: RenderKit - questions

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

Hi

On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 03:59  Uhr, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
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> > uh ... did you do too much C++ programming lately? ...:-} But in 
> > general - for the exposed API - please avoid direct ivar access, esp. 
> > in ObjC! If there is a speed penalty it is certainly not caused by 
> > simple accessors. Or do I missunderstand what you mean here?
>
> I dunno, Phil, I'm just trying to come up with some brainstorming to 
> compensate for your wet-blanket worries. If you promise not to write 
> about "big showstopper" problems, I promise not to diverge into 
> fragile non-OOP techniques for circumventing them. Hey -- this is just 
> the discussion list, after all.

Of course, I didn't meant to be 'offensive'. What we need *know* is a 
plan how to start with the real work, otherwise 0.4 will never take 
off... BTW I am not even sure if 0.4 is a good number, because it 
sounds like a simple successor to 0.3.x .... what do you think?

Wrt the work, for me there is one last real issue which I do not yet 
really see through, the scene representation. What if sb would like to 
use not a scene graph but an octree or some CSG? How can we offer a 
good API to incorporate such  scenes in the 3DKit? Ideas?

-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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