Hi,
I am using OpenGL almost 10 years for scientific data visualization of many (millions) of triangles and it is operated in our C home made sources via
glBegin(…); glVertex3fv(…); glEnd();
All development is going on Linux, right now we are using Ubuntu.
Now I meet an interesting problem that I wish to ask you to help.
I would like to draw my object without opening X Window, and save the result in the PPM/JPG data. I used glReadPixels(…) to grab pictures, but it works only if I have X Window.
My program will work as http server and produce nice scientific pictures after http request, so, I need to do everything without opening X Window.
Please, advice em how to do it (if it is ever possible). A simple example of OpenGL initialization and dumping would be very appreciated.
Thank you
Ilgis