Re: Looking for a 3D library

[steven <steven.wang@intel.com>]

Peter Hatch wrote:
> 
> Xavier Lesage wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am a PhD student in artificial life.
> >
> > I would like to animate cubes and spheres in a 3D environment with colours,
> > textures and shadows. I do not want to re-develop common functions that are
> > likely to exist somewhere. Has anyone an idea of where I could find such a
> > library (in freeware or with moderate license costs).
> >
> > I would like to access this library from my programms (written in
> > Smalltalk, Java or ADA) running in Linux, therefore the library must be
> > compatible with at least one of this environment.
> >
> > Thank you for giving me a name or an URL where I could find information.
> >
> > Xavier Lesage
> > Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie
> 
> You should probably use OpenGL.  It's fast, and it's available for linux
> as the Mesa libraries.  I know that it works with VW Smalltalk
> (currently only under Win95/NT, but Terry Fleury just completed a
> partial port of the Jun display system over to Mesa/Glut so it will soon
> work under Unix).  If you have access to a WinTel box, you can evaluate
> the Jun system to see if it meets your needs (I expect that it will).
> You can get the non-commercial version of VW Smalltalk from (for linux
> and WinTel):
> 
> http://www.objectshare.com/vwnc
> 
> Jun is available from:
> 
> http://www.sra.co.jp/people/aoki/htmls/FreeSoftwareForSmalltalk.html
> 
> I will work over the next month (big vacation month, not much free time)
> on getting Terry's Mesa port ready for general use.  Unless you want to
> be programming graphics code all day long, you should really try out
> Jun.
> 
> -pete
> 
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How to get Linux system? 

steve