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Khronos cranks out new OpenGL 3.1 spec
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| THE KHRONOS GROUP, chaired by Nvidia crony Neil Trevett, has released OpenGL
| 3.1 – the cross-platform, royalty-free API for 3D graphics – at GDC in San
| Francisco today.
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| Version 3.1 of OpenGL includes a new version of the OpenGL shading language –
| GLSL1.40 – and has better programmability, more efficient vertex processing,
| expanded texturing functionality and increased buffer management flexibility.
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| Arguably the best thing about OpenGL 3.1, as the name indicates, is
| its 'openness', with multiple vendors signing up and jumping on the
| bandwagon. In fact, analyst Jon Peddie reckons over 100 million computer
| units already have an installed base of graphics hardware that will support
| OpenGL 3.1, while OpenGL 3.0 drivers are already shipping on AMD, Nvidia and
| S3 GPUs.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/509/1051509/khronos-cranks-opengl-spec
OpenGL 3.1 Released Plus New Audio Standard
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE2Nw
A 3D web moves closer to reality
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| The 3D web moved closer to reality as Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox
| browser, joined forces with graphics consortium Khronos.
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| Khronos has set up a working group to create a standard for what it calls
| accelerated 3D graphics on the web.
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| [...]
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| The development of the standard being proposed by Mozilla will create a
| mechanism to let JavaScript - the programming language used to write many
| web-based applications - tap into the widely used OpenGL graphics interface
| technology.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7963302.stm
Recent:
bringing accelerated 3D to the web
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| The proposed spec (found in one of vlad’s post on 3D Canvas) is a pretty
| light wrapper on top of OpenGL ES 2.0, with some changes to support some
| JavaScript pleasantries. OpenGL ES is a decent starting point, which is why
| we picked it. OpenGL is supported as part of every major operating system
| and in it’s being picked up as a standard on mobile devices as well.
| Compared to the full OpenGL spec, the ES variant is a smaller subset that
| reflects the reality of what’s being used on the ground and most hardware and
| software vendors have actually been re-tooling to support OpenGL ES with
| support for older versions of full OpenGL emulated on top of OpenGL ES.
| Mixed with the fact that there’s a decent amount of knowledge out there in
| the industry of how to use OpenGL, we think that this smooths the integration
| between the current set of OpenGL users and larger web developer community.
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http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1207
LiMo-ready Linux stack goes 3D
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| Access is demonstrating its Access Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0 at Mobile World
| Congress in Barcelona. The new LiMo-compatible "advanced UI" mobile ALP stack
| leverages Open GL-ES 2.0 to offer 3D special effects, and introduces a
| standardized API that splits logic from presentation layers, says Access.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3165362593.html?kc=rss
AMD Catalyst 9.1 Brings OpenGL 3.0
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| AMD has just released its first official Catalyst driver update for the new
| year. AMD had delivered several key improvements to their proprietary Linux
| driver stack last year as we shared in our AMD Linux 2008 Year in Review, but
| what's there to get excited about in Catalyst 9.1? Well, first and foremost
| there is improved Composite support during video playback, Hybrid CrossFire
| support, and a number of fixes. Oh, and there's also OpenGL 3.0 support!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_catalyst_91&num=1
NVIDIA 180.08 Beta Driver Adds In OpenGL 3.0
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| Less than a week after releasing the NVIDIA 180.06 Linux display driver,
| NVIDIA has released a new set of beta drivers for their supported alternative
| operating systems. NVIDIA has released the 180.08 driver, which adds in
| OpenGL 3.0 support and contains fixes for their new video acceleration API.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njg2MQ
NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver
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| The OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 specification were released back in August
| during SIGGRAPH 2008. Just days later NVIDIA had delivered a beta driver for
| Windows that added OpenGL 3.0 functionality, but Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris
| users were left in the dark. Two months later though NVIDIA has now published
| a beta Linux driver that implements most of the latest GL/GLSL specification.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_linux_ogl3&num=1
SGI Further Opens Its OpenGL Contributions
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/sgi-further-opens-its-opengl-contributions,548151.shtml
SGI relicenses OpenGL: "A huge gift to the free software community"
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| After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL
| code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was
| released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by
| neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative.
| Today, however, the FSF has announced that the licenses in question, the SGI
| Free License B and the GLX Public License, have been rewritten after months
| of negotiation between the FSF and SGI. The problem is now resolved, and the
| result is a code contribution that the FSF ranks as one of the greatest given
| to the community by a proprietary company.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/148339
Thank you SGI, for freeing the GNU/Linux 3D desktop!
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| In January of 2008, software code at the heart of GNU/Linux 3D applications
| was discovered to be non-free—a potential disaster for free software
| advocates hoping to see advanced graphical acceleration now common on modern
| operating systems.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/thank-you-sgi
Unigine Tropics Sets Linux OpenGL Precedence
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| Unigine Tropics is set around a tropical environment (hence its name) and it
| runs through various scenes of an island during both the day and night. Some
| of its technical features though include a dynamic sky with light scattering,
| live water with a surf zone and caustics, special materials for vegetation,
| HDR rendering, parallel split shadow map for the sun, depth of field, and
| real-time ambient occlusion. Whether you are interested in benchmarking or
| not, this is one impressive graphics demo just to watch -- permitting your
| graphics card can handle it!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=unigine_tropics&num=1
OpenGL 3.0 - A Big Step in the Right Direction
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| GL 3.0 takes two important steps to moving open standard graphics forward in
| a major way. The first is to provide core and ARB extension access to the new
| and exciting capabilities of hardware. The second is to create a roadmap that
| allows developers to see what parts of core specifications will be going away
| in the future, also providing the OpenGL ARB with a way to introduce new
| features faster.
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http://fireuser.com/blog/opengl_30_a_big_step_in_the_right_direction/
OpenGL 3 Announced
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| The OpenGL Architecture Review Board officially announced OpenGL 3 on August
| 8th 2007 at the Siggraph Birds of a Feather (BOF) in San Diego, CA.
|
| [...]
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| OpenGL 3 is a true industry effort with broad support from all vendors in the
| ARB. The OpenGL 3 specification is on track to be finalized at the next
| face-to-face meeting of the OpenGL ARB, at the end of August.
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18446/OpenGL-3-Announced/
VDPAU + OpenGL 3.0 On Gallium3D This Summer?
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| This is the fourth year that the X.Org project will be participating in
| Google's Summer of Code project. In the past we have seen work like Generic
| Gallium3D Video Decoding using a graphics card's shaders to assist in video
| decoding no matter the hardware vendor. This year there are a few interesting
| possibilities.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE0Mg
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