From: Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger@t-online.de>
  To  : mailing list GGI <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:09:31 +0100 (MET)

3d-graphics

Sorry. I have forgotten something to mention

> To all:
>
> About two years ago, I had programmed a fully 3d-library. It includes:
> 
> 	fixed point math, edge spanning on polygons, textures, flat- and
> 	gouraud-shading, morphing and some more...

	zbuffer also
> 
> Now I am porting it to ggi. The port is still alpha, but quite stable.
> The port called 3DtoolKit (3dtk) includes now:
> 
> 	fixed point math, edge spanning on polygons fully
	zbuffer (fixpoint version)

> 	float point math, flat-shading partly
> 
> There are also known bugs :-(, look in the file TODO for a deskription,
> but together we get the bugs!
> 
> My future plan is to include it in the libggi3d.
> 
> For the final alpha2 release, the bugs must be fixed.
> For the final alpha3 release, textured polygons and gouraud-shading are
> planed.
> The beta1 I planed has morphing and fully float point math.
> 
> Some demos are existing also:
> 	fix_stars	test program if the fix point math works
> 	flo_stars	test program if the float point math works
> 	fix_cube	test program if the polygon routines using the
> 			fixed point math works
> 
> Critic, questions, bug reports, improvement suggestions, patches and bug
> fixes are always welcome!
> 

Andy will upload every release to ftp://ftp.ggi-project.org/pub/ggi/misc/3dtk/ .
Thanks Andy!

Cheers,

Christoph Egger
E-Mail: Christoph_Egger@t-online.de