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From: ksung@cs.uiuc.edu (Kelvin Sung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Render into memory instead of Screen?
Keywords: GL-Library Off-screen Rendering
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.051934.17566@cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 91 05:19:34 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Is there any way to use the graphics hardware on the SGI as a
rendering engine and not have any disaply on the screen?
More specifically, I wish to render my 3D geometric objects
into memory without dispalying anything. This is like the 
X-pixmap functionality. 

We have SGI-board on our IBM RS/6000, is the above functionality
achievable with our system?

Thanks for any help.

Kelvin Sung
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
1304 W. Springfield Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

ksung@cs.uiuc.edu
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Kelvin Sung
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science