From srp@ncsa.uiuc.edu Mon Aug 31 10:53:51 1998 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:41:03 -0500 From: Steve Pietrowicz To: Tom Coffin Subject: Re: meeting Hi Tom, Here's the URL to our home page: http://havefun.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Java3D/ The NCSA Portfolio object library is available at: http://havefun.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Java3D/portfolio/ The home page has a couple of URLs to the MPEGs of the VisAD application and to the Astronomy application. The actual apps haven't been released yet, but we can put some archives together for you. You can get to the "You Build It VR" engine I was talking about at: http://www.sun.com/desktop/java3d/ Just look for my name on that page. You'll want to use the "Java 3D 1.1 alpha 3" version of Java 3D with the VR app. Our app exposed a bug in the latest Java 3D(beta 1). It causes some redraw problems to occur. Anyway, if you have time next Thursday, why don't you drop by for a demo of all this stuff? I'm in 206A PAB. It's the building on the southwest corner of Sixth and Springfield. Any time should be fine, just name it. You asked about system requirements; here's what we use: For Windows NT: 300 Mhz Pentium II class box , 128M RAM, 8 gig drive, OpenGL card. We use a Diamond Fire1000 Pro, it's really really low end, but it works fairly well. You'll probably want to get a better card. Anything that's *fully* OpenGL compliant should be OK. There are a number of cards that don't implement the full OpenGL spec, so you have to watch out for that. For Solaris: Sun Ultra 30 workstation (250 Mhz, I think), 128M Ram, 8 gig drive. Current releases of Java and Java 3D are JDK 1.2beta 4, and Java 3D 1.1 beta 1. Our stuff will run on lower end systems. The minimum software requirements for Java 3D are currently available at: http://developer.javasoft.com/developer/earlyAccess/java3D/java3d-install.html (It'll prompt for a password, but sign up is free). Steve Tom Coffin wrote: > hi > > great bumping into you today. just a note to > start an email avalanch between us regarding > demos for access, the third floor as a presentation > channel, java3d etc.... > > ___________________________________________________________ > Tom Coffin............................tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu > >