Aurora Graphics Library Initial Design Discussion

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 16:15:00 PST 2014


On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:31:08 -0800, Ola Fosheim Grøstad  
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, 19 January 2014 at 03:38:30 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> The choice that I would like to clarify is that Aurora will be a  
>> retained mode API. I understand that this is not the best choice for  
>> speed and that not everyone will be happy with this choice. However,  
>> retained mode API's are typically much higher-level, which will make it  
>> easier for developers that are unfamiliar with writing graphics code to  
>> express their intent.
>
> What kind of retained mode API is being considered?
>
> Is this indicating a possible change of direction in favour of a scene  
> graph model?

I am not sure yet, probably a scene graph though or some hybrid thereof.  
They have the advantage of being easy to understand and use.

-- 
Adam Wilson
GitHub/IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator


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