Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:20:37 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> : [...] > > Another advantage is that a simple "do GL" interface is much more > > "future-proof" interface, since it is a very high level interface. > > Not really, we are heading towards real time raytrace and the hardware > and low level changes dramatically for that (including wanting to do non > light traces for audio mixing, explosion models etc)
Just curious: how would it prevent to push standardization through OpenGL extensions if needed ?
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