[vtk-developers] DirectX rendering for VTK

Gerrick Bivins gbivins at objectreservoir.com
Thu Feb 26 09:15:43 EST 2009


Hi Lisa,
Did you receive any responses about this?
Gerrick

Lisa Avila wrote:
> 
> 
> Kitware may have the opportunity to create a DirectX interface for VTK 
> (to mirror the OpenGL interface). I am sending this email to the VTK 
> community in order to gather "support" stories that would justify this 
> effort.
> 
> If you are a long-time VTK user / developer, then you are probably aware 
> that VTK has an abstraction layer on top of the underlying graphics 
> language in order to support cross-platform operation. In the early 
> days, VTK supported not only OpenGL, but also Starbase (for use on HP 
> computers) and XGL (for use on Sun computers). In time, HP and Sun 
> switched to OpenGL, and support for Starbase and XGL were dropped from 
> VTK. Even though VTK now only supports OpenGL, the abstraction layer has 
> been maintained to allow us to add another graphics language should the 
> need arise. DirectX has been on our radar screen for years; however it 
> has been low on our priority list since it would not expand the 
> cross-platform reach of VTK.
> 
> I'd like to see DirectX support added to VTK because I believe this 
> would help us re-validate our "graphics language independent" 
> abstraction layer which may have been breached in the years of having 
> only OpenGL support. But I'm not sure if that is enough of a reason to 
> pursue this effort :-) so I am looking to the user / developer community 
> to see if there are additional reasons why DirectX support in VTK would 
> be valuable. If you have any supporting arguments for this work, please 
> send them directly to me at lisa.avila at kitware.com. If I do receive any, 
> I'll be sure to summarize the responses back to this list.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Lisa
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