OpenGL Headline News
DMP, Digital Media Professional announces new seminar room and new OpenGL ES courses
Category: General • Developers •
Aug 31, 2007
DMP, Digital Media Professional has recently established a new seminar room for the training of Khronos API’s. The room offers comfortable chairs, a specious desk space for each student, a ceiling mounted projector, a white board for easy instructor presentation, 12 computers with 17 inch LCD’s and excellent air conditioning. There is even an in-class coffee maker. DMP has also announced two new OpenGL ES classes in November. For further information, please visit the Khronos Events page.
Interview with Neil Trevett by Zenji Nishikawa after Siggraph 2007
Category: General •
Aug 29, 2007
After Siggraph 2007 in San Diego, Neil Trevett Vice President Embedded Content, NVIDIA and President, Khronos Group did a long interview with Zenji Nishikawa, a Japanese journalist. The article covers the short and long term outlook of OpenGL. It is quite detailed and well worth a look, however it is in Japanese only. We have included a link using Google’s translator which is rough, but will give you an idea of what the article is all about.
Khronos Group posts slides from Siggraph 2007 BOFs
Category: General •
Aug 28, 2007
The Khronos Group today posted slides from several of the Birds of a Feather sessions that were held at the 2007 Siggraph in San Diego. Included in the slide collections are OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenKODE, OpenVG and OpenMAX. There is also a collection for the Japan BOF. You can view the slides on the Khronos Groups Developer Library in PDF format.
AMD GPU ShaderAnalyzer adds support for OpenGL
Category: Developers •
Aug 28, 2007
AMD’s GPU ShaderAnalyzer adds support for OpenGL in its new version available from http://ati.amd.com/developer/. With support for GLSL, ARB_fragment_program and ARB_vertex_program alongside support for D3D9 and D3D10, GPU ShaderAnalyzer provides accurate shader performance analysis and hardware shader disassembly on the full range of ATI Radeon GPUs.
ArcGIS New Explorer SDK Enhancements
Category: Applications •
Aug 28, 2007
The latest release of ArcGIS Explorer includes a host of enhancements to the API, creating new opportunities for custom task developers. The custom task framework genuinely differentiates ArcGIS Explorer from other virtual globes, allowing users to plug in custom functionality directly into the main application. The most notable of the API enhancements are changes to the View3D class. This class controls the main viewing window in ArcGIS Explorer (the window which displays the globe). New methods and events on the View3D class now allow developers to render OpenGL graphics on top of the view. Someone has also posted a video at YouTube showing wind vectors drawn using OpenGL.
