[Uni-verse] High end engine

[Gert Svensson]

Thanks for the specification and clarification below.
This will certainly be a topic for an interesting discussion on the 
meeting next week,


Best Regards
Gert


Sascha Schneider wrote:

>Hi Eskil,
>
>The implementation of the high end and the slim client are both parts of
>workpackage 4. Looking into the proposal IGD is the workpackage leader,
>having 18MM effort. KTH is the second partner in WP4 having 14MM effort. The
>slim client must be finished until month 28. The first implementation of the
>high end client must be finished until month 12 - the end version until
>month 24.
>
>Doing the specification we thought it would be a good idea if in the first
>place everyone involved in the workpackage contributes the main parts he has
>the best experience in. That is of course for the Verse communication part
>You resp. KTH. For the visualization on thin clients it is our department.
>For the visualization on high end systems somehow both of us have knowledge
>available of course. So it is not said in the proposal that these two sub
>workpackages have to be splitted and each of the involved institutions deals
>with just one of them. The better idea in our opinion is, if we can do the
>work in both parts together. As we have already a kind of high end
>visualization available (OpenSG cluster rendering) here at IGD and as it is
>our responsiblity to realize a radiosity module in WP 6 (which of course can
>only be seen as a part of a high end visualizing system - not possible on
>thin clients) it would be a good idea, if the workpackage can profit from
>your experience of connection clients to verse and from our OpenSG
>knowledge. So if we split the work correspondingly there is a good chance
>for us all to reach these targets within time. But perhaps we can discuss
>this in more detail on the upcoming meeting.
>
>Regards
>Sascha Schneider - Dipl.-Math. - Sascha.Schneider@igd.fhg.de
>Tel.: 06151/155631 - Fraunhofer IGD - Fraunhoferstraße 5 - 64283 Darmstadt
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: uni-verse-admin@blender.org [mailto:uni-verse-admin@blender.org]On
>>Behalf Of Eskil Steenberg
>>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:36 AM
>>To: uni-verse@blender.org
>>Subject: [Uni-verse] High end engine
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>>Hi
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>>There seems to be some confusion on the subject of High end rendering
>>engines.From my recollection of the spec KTH (or more precisely me) are
>>responsible for implementing it where as Fraunhofer are responsible for
>>the Thin-End rendering engine. But now it looks like Fraunhofer is
>>planing to implement both. can i get some clarity  on the on the subject?
>>
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