Wayne, Mantes and others -
Java 3D is currently available on:
Solaris/SPARC from Sun
Windows (various flavors) from Sun
HP-UX from HP
IRIX from SGI (coming up to 1.2.1 soon)
AIX from IBM
Linux from Blackdown
Our web pages points to all of them.
Regarding using Java 3D, remember it is a scene graph API, and not just Java
wrappers for OpenGL. There is a big difference. We also do alot of optimization
to draw to the screen quickly. Also, Java 3D sits on top of OpenGL or Direct3D,
depending on which version you download.
See java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D
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> From: Wayne Glanfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Java3D and OpenGL
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> Sounds like you already know the answer from the questions your asking!
>
> Java3d is simpler and faster to learn for basic 3d work, however, using
> opengl with java allows greater flexibility and access to much greater
> functionality including the nurbs and trimmed surface libraries built into
> opengl, very useful if your polygon based modeling isn't up to what you
> need.
>
> Although using opengl limits your app. to a specificplatform, this is a bit
> of a mute issue with regard to java3d as java3d is only supported on Sun and
> microsoft at present I believe.
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>
> >
> >Hi there!
> >
> >I'm writing a 3D application and I'm trying to find out what is best to
> >use : Java and OpenGL for Java, or just Java3D.
> >Which of the to choises is faster and gives better results? Which one is
> >simpler ?
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >Nasos
> >
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