From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:05:37 -0700 (PDT)

Re: 3d

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, teunis wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> 
> > James A Simmons wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is so we can come up with a standard API that will work with everything.
> > 
> > Microsoft calls such things Direct3D. Do you know what mess that is? :o)
> 
> AFAIK last fight we had IIRC we'd decided on using OpenGL as the API.
> Makes the commercial world happier amongst other things - and there's
> already an implementation (unaccelerated at moment, MesaGL)

	OpenGL is *an* API.  Anyone can write another LibGGI-family 3D
lib.  If we write one that is much simpler and more general than OpenGL,
the two can coexist just fine.

Jon

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