3dot11?

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Thu Jul 5 16:18:46 UTC 2007


A Balloon category has now been added to the Squeak project on
bugs.squeak.org and it has been assigned to Andreas.

Ken

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:15 +0200, Lukas Renggli wrote:
> > Seems like you are unaware that Balloon and Balloon3D are two
> > completely different frameworks. Balloon is a 2D renderer with anti-
> > aliasing, originally written and optimized towards rendering SWF. The
> > BalloonCanvas utilizes the BalloonEngine for Morphic drawing.
> > Balloon3D is a 3D graphics engine with multiple backends, including a
> > software rasterizer with bilinear textur filtering, Direct3D and
> > OpenGL accelerated backends.
> 
> I was not aware that these are two different things. At least the two
> frameworks share a big part of their name and obviously they both do
> some kind of graphic drawing. Furthermore there is no category for
> 'Balloon' on Mantis, just one for 'Balloon3D'. Does 'Balloon' belong
> to 'Morphic'? Does this mean that 'Balloon' is not maintained?
> 
> That would be a pity, because the anti-aliasing was about the only
> argument to prefer Squeak over VisualWorks for graphics. With the
> raise of Cairo things probably change anyway :-(
> 
> Lukas
> 
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