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[William A. Hoffman]

 From what I can tell, all Quartz Extreme does is use OpenGL calls
for the windowing system.   It converts everything to a texture map
and uses openGL to put it on the screen.  
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/quartzextreme.html

"Here's how it works. Quartz uses the integrated OpenGL technology to convert each window into a texture, then sends it to the graphics card to render on screen. The graphics processor focuses on what it does best graphics freeing the Power PC chip to do more operations in the same amount of time. Everything is zippier. "


Since VTK already uses OpenGL for all its graphics display, I really
don't know what Quarts Extreme will do for you, or if it even means
anything in this context.


-Bill


At 05:13 PM 2/4/2003 +0100, Jens Eickmeyer wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>I've got VTK working on my PowerBook G4. I'm using the X11 package provided by 
>Apple because I have to use VtkQt within my applications and this has no port 
>to MacOS X. So far, VTK works very well. I've also tested VTK with Carbon and 
>it seems to work, too, but I only tested the examples. It would be very nice 
>if there would be some optimizations. It would be even nicer if you can port 
>VtkQt to OS X :-)
>
>Jens
>
>Am Wednesday 05 February 2003 04:50 schrieb Gary Schiltz:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm at the same time learning vtk and getting ready to buy a
>> laptop to be my general purpose machine. I'm leaning toward
>> a Macintosh Powerbook since I like Macs, but I want to make
>> sure that OSX is at least a reasonable platform for running
>> vtk applications. Would anyone care to comment? If it is at
>> least a workable platform, then I'd be interested in trying
>> to integrate some Altivec and Quartz Extreme optimizations
>> into the port.        Since my company is closing its Santa Fe office,
>> I seem to have found myself temporarily free of a job after
>> this week, with some time on my hands :-)
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Gary Schiltz
>> gss at cybermesa.com
>> Pecos, New Mexico
>>
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