Why use OpenGL (was Native Mode Handling)
Torgeir Veimo
torgeir@pobox.com
Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:15:28 +0000
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:55, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Also if you take that approach, OpenGL is just another rendering engine
> that can draw stuff into offscreen memory buffers (as is the 2D engine
> and Video engine). Then you can do 2D, 3D and Video all together into a
> video memory buffers and composite them all together to form the final
> desktop. Flicker free, translucent and smooth ;-)
>
> Oh wait! I am just describing OS X ;-)
Or DirectFB, depending on your origin.
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Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@pobox.com>