[Nottingham] What 2d or 3d drawing toolkit/lib?

Roger Light rogerlight at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 10:45:54 BST 2005


On 26/07/05, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm putting together a rudimentary C++ results display routine.
> >
> > 2: The same again but for a shaded '3d' view of spheres & solids?
>
> --- OK, so for the sake of any alternate suggestions, its thrash through
> OpenGL all the way is it?

I don't think OpenGL is all that bad to be honest. I can about manage
some rudimentary display so I'm sure you can :)

Some GPL examples (in C) to get you going. I used these as a base and
got something working quite quickly.

http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/opengl/

A tutorial: http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/www/Terry/OpenGL/Introduction.html
The Red Book: http://rush3d.com/reference/opengl-redbook-1.1/
The Blue Book: http://rush3d.com/reference/opengl-bluebook-1.0/

Cheers,

Roger



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