WJUG Meeting: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with Java
John Hurst
Just a reminder: our next Wellington Java User Group meeting will be
held on:
Wednesday 21 November 5:00 for 5:15 - 6:30pm
The venue is to be:
Ministry of Social Development
Enza House
11-17 Bolton Street (Opposite the Bolton Hotel)
Wellington
Topic: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with Java
Dr Michael Reid presents an overview of hardware accelerated graphics
using Java with a focus on the Java OpenGL (JOGL, JSR-231) bindings.
Topics covered include:
- The capabilities of OpenGL, the industry-standard for workstation
graphics
- Why choose OpenGL? a comparison of OpenGL to its competitors
(primarily DirectX)
- Benefits Java brings to programming OpenGL/JOGL
- A discussion of the exciting new field of GPGPU, high-performance
computing on modern video cards
- Uses for JOGL besides games
- The future direction of OpenGL, and
- Internet resources and how you can get started with JOGL.
Speaker: Dr Michael Reid
Dr Michael Reid is an independent software consultant with commercial
experience using both J2EE and J2SE development platforms. He was
awarded a PhD in Physics in 2002 where he developed software to find
planetary gravitational microlensing events as part of the the
New Zealand/Japanese MOA (Microlensing Observations in
Astrophysics) project. He has been using Java since the first 1.0
beta, although performance concerns meant it became his primary
development platform at version 1.2. Of particular interest are
Java's capabilities in visualisation and computation.
Host: Ministry of Social Development
(We thank our host!)
Prize Draw: IntelliJ IDEA Licence
We will be giving away a free licence for IntelliJ IDEA to a lucky
winner among the attendees.
It is rumoured that we will also be giving away another hot prize too!
Yours
John Hurst
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