From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FAKE_REPLY_C, FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc6f9338f3a892fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Marius Amado Alves" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A couple of questions Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 18:53:29 -0700 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1083430534 72231 212.85.156.195 (1 May 2004 16:55:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 16:55:34 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 May 2004 16:55:27.0191 (UTC) FILETIME=[1A5D4E70:01C42F9D] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:169 Date: 2004-05-01T18:53:29-07:00 "The most impressive graphical stuff I've seen is..." ... a webpage that I cannot pinpoint now. Of course if OpenGL suits you then you're in the clear. There are bindings. I think that if I needed complex graphics now I would try OpenGL first. /* Some years back a toured the Web for image generation stuff and I distinctly remember that the most impressive results I found were associated with Ada. I cannot reproduce that just now. Maybe the pages have moved, maybe they were the usual OpenGL suspects still out there now and my perception, or their image, has changed... I seem to remember an horrible acronym, maybe DJGPP. */