[ggo-discussion] Re: SGF tree display

* Peter Strempel wrote on Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 22:55 +0100:
> Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> > Just as a probably stupid idea: Maybe in upcoming versions the 3D
> > is a kind of "plugin" for gGo.
>=20
> There is no real good 3D engine for Java.=20

Would get slow I think. That's why JNI or a second application
came in my mind.

> abandoned. Eventually, Sun and SGI announced the development of
> OpenGL integration into Java few months ago, but that might
> will take until end of 2004 or 2005 to be available.

Interesting information. Thank you.

> > some "external drawing engine", e.g. some SDL application
> > which is a standalone server offering some TCP commands?
>=20
> Ugly, ugly. :)

Ugly? mmm... I would see it as a clean client-server application
in the meaning of modern component based designs.

> Communication with shared memory would be possible and
> reasonable fast, but such is only available on Unix.

On linux, local TCP communication is also fast and offers a high
bandwidth. I would not expect any human-detecatable delay.

> I see not much benefit of an external board window application,
> there is a lot of communication going on between the board and
> the core, so it should be IMO in the same process else things
> will be very complex.

I would expect the problems when trying to get the rendering at
the correct place of the screen. however.

> If one wants 3D, why not simply use glGo?

Ohh! Didn't you annouced that development of gGo is discontinued
and superseeded by glGo?

> After all glGo isn't anything else than gGo-in-C++ (well, at
> least it will be when it's done). The huge advantage of gGo and
> Java is its portability to any platform which supports Java
> (especially OS X as I don't have a Mac myself), therefor gGo
> will remain a pure Java application without any platform
> dependant code.

Ahh, even better, CooL :-)

Have a nice weekend!

oki,

Steffen

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