Agreed!
-- Owen
On Mar 12, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
> Any book on Java, OpenGL and Jogl has to be over five years out of date. Jogl
> was popular for a while because CS students were learning Java as their
> primary programming language. There was a lot of activity for a while with
> Sun and Java3D but when that died, it ignited some interest in Jogl. However,
> Jogl 1x is totally out of date being based an old OpenGL. Updating it to
> include programmable shaders is not trivial. Even though you can find
> references to Jogl 2.0 being under development, I haven't seen any hard
> evidence and whatever entity is developing it isn't one of the standards
> groups.
>
> Why there are no standard Java bindings to OpenGL is an interesting issue
> with a long history. I suspect all the Jogl development efforts will
> subsumed by webgl and JavaScript.
>
> Ed
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> On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:58 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>> Wow. I wish Java had not lost so many battles. The code structure in these
>> examples are brilliant.
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote:
>>
>>> Might be useful:
>>>
>>> Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
>>> With Java, OpenGL and Jogl
>>> David J. Eck
>>> Hobart and William smith Colleges
>>>
>>> on-line Book available at http://math.hws.edu/graphicsnotes/
>>>
>>> Alfredo
>>
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