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From: rick@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Rick Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: immediate mode graphics versus display-list graphics
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Date: 30 Sep 90 06:06:06 GMT
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During a visualization workshop I was running last week for the oil industry,
one popular 3-D workstation vendor was knocking display-list based graphics
languages such as Dore or PHIGS as being compartively inflexible and slow.
This seemed to be the case for equivalent demos under the two systems.
I used to be a supported of Dore/PHIGS because I thought the code was more
compact and therefore quicker to debug, and now I am not so sure.
Any comments?