Fwd: [Fieldtrip] Lighting Patch for Fieldtrip

[Conal Elliott]

Thanks, Ivan.  This is the kind of simplicity/generality/GPU-friendliness
I'm looking for.  - Conal

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ivan Tomac <tomac at pacific.net.au> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> David Sankel wrote:
>
>> I think the concept of a light (omni/directional) goes beyond OpenGL.
>>
>>
>>
> Sure. As do the concepts of shadows, reflection, refraction, etc, none of
> which have specialized constructs in OpenGL. You could add them which would
> increase complexity. An alternative is to get rid of special cases without
> losing any functionality, quite the opposite in fact. That was hard before
> shaders but much easier now.
>
>> The lighting models are just simple functions and with shaders they are
>>> best
>>> represented as such.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps you could post a haskell interface of the alternative light
>> structure you have in mind. I think it'd help the discussion.
>>
>>
>>
> A function!
>
> Ivan
>
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