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From: erik@gogoman.sf.ca.us (Erik Fortune)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 3D graphics under X (short: one more)
Message-ID: <5@gogoman.sf.ca.us>
Date: 23 Nov 90 09:48:56 GMT
References: <chrisp.659079791@warabi> <3168@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: erik@gogoman.UUCP (Erik Fortune)
Organization: Erik's Adventure Ranch
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In article <3168@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> gilles@cannes.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick-Gilles Maillot) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>In your list, you are missing XGL, from Sun Microsystems. XGL does 3D graphics
>in the X environment. It is an immediate mode library, providing standard
>primitives such as polylines, polygons, nurbs curves, text... in 2D ad 3D.
>XGL also provides lighting/shading, hidden-line/hidden-surface removal and
>depth cueing.
>
>For more information, contact your Sun representative.
>
>-Patrick

You should also look at GL from Silicon Graphics (no relation whatsoever
to Sun's XGL -- GL predates XGL, but Sun stole the name).   SGI's GL 
runs across SGI's product line, on IBM RS/6000's and on IBM PC's and
clones,  giving you a broad range from which to choose price (as low 
as $3k) and performance (up to 1 million polygons per second) and
function (standard stuff like vectors, lighted polygons and so on
all the way up relatively spiffy stuff like texture-mapped polygons.

You have an equally broad range from which to choose processing
power (as opposed to graphics performance), from 386 clones, to
workstations like the IBM RS/6000 or SGI 4D/35, all the way up 
to SGI's high-end multi-processor machines which weigh in somewhere 
above 200 mips.

Disclaimer:  I work for SGI, but I'm not at work right now and I'm 
             speaking for myself.    
	     
The GL is cool, the high-end hardware is *really* cool.

Contact SGI or send me mail and I'll have someone get it touch with
you.

-- Erik
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Work:   erik@sgi.com