Quickdraw GX : How is it ?

[Harry A. Reinke]

Of the many things I have heard about Quickdraw GX, the one that I am most
interested in is 3D graphics. I heard that there will be built-in routine
for doing complex 3D rendering.

For anyone who has a beta version ... how is it ? Is it easy, can it
really do shaded 3d renderings, and how good are the renderings ?

Thanks.

[Tom Dowdy]

In article <CM5BH...@Dunx1.OCS.Drexel.Edu>, rein...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu
(Harry A. Reinke) wrote:

> Of the many things I have heard about Quickdraw GX, the one that I am most
> interested in is 3D graphics. I heard that there will be built-in routine
> for doing complex 3D rendering.

QuickDraw GX supports arbitrary 3X3 transformation matricies. The third
collumn is used for encoding of perspective. You can use this to
create 3D displays of objects, and a library (ie, source code)
is included on the CDs that show how to do this.

However, this is *not* "built-in 3D rendering" by just about anyone's
definitions. I certainly wouldn't call it "complex".

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