Multibuffer extension gone
Jim Gettys
Jim.Gettys at hp.com
Thu Nov 11 14:15:27 PST 2004
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 17:02 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, stereo is needed. Would be interesting to see if it would be hard
> > to add to double buffer, just to have less code to maintain.
>
> Yet, who does stereo for 2D?
People doing imaging... (GIS, etc.)
>
> If you are doing 3D, presumably you use OpenGL's stereo buffer
> capabilities....
>
I'd presume so. But not everything in the world is OpenGL...
It does beg a question whether that class of applications should be
using OpenGL at this date, since you can coerce it into showing
images if you are suitably inclined...
- Jim
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