CONTRIBUTORS
Written by Ken Jones and Jenn Byrnes
Illustrated by Chrystie Danzer
Production by Karen Jacobson and Ken Jones
Engineering contributions by Ye Cong, Craig Dunwoody, Bill Feth, Alpana Kaulgud, Claude Knaus, Ravid Na'ali, Jeffrey Ungar, Christophe Winkler, Guy Zadicario, and Hansong Zhang
COPYRIGHT
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TRADEMARKS AND ATTRIBUTIONS
Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI logo, InfiniteReality, IRIS, IRIX, Onyx, Onyx2, OpenGL, and Reality Center are registered trademarks and GL, InfinitePerformance, InfiniteReality2, IRIS GL, Octane2, Onyx4, Open Inventor, the OpenGL logo, OpenGL Multipipe, OpenGL Performer, Power Onyx, SGI Advanced Linux, SGI Propack, Silicon Graphics Prism, Tezro, and UltimateVision are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.
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| Revision 001 | August 2000 | ||
| Beta release. | |||
| Revision 002 | November 2000 | ||
| Updated for release 1.0 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. | |||
| Revision 003 | February 2001 | ||
Updated for release 1.1 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. New features: - Increased overall performance - Support for overlapping screens, as in SGI Reality Center facilities | |||
| Revision 004 | May 2001 | ||
Updated for release 1.2 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. New features: - Transparent OpenGL Pipe Management - Subset of multipipe applications made aware of Xinerama | |||
| Revision 005 | August 2001 | ||
Updated for release 1.3 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. New features: - Enhanced Support for Multithreaded Applications - Enhanced tgl Script | |||
| Revision 006 | November 2001 | ||
Updated for release 1.4 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Bugfixes: - Enhanced GLX conformance for context manipulation - Support for pixmaps, pbuffers, and GLXWindows Beta features: - Curved Screen Support This allows you to run applications on a non-planar Reality Center in immersive mode by adapting the 3D projections to the display layout. - Window Manager Support for Aware Windows All applications started in aware mode can now be under window manager control by using the customized window manager included with this release. | |||
| Revision 007 | February 2002 | ||
Updated for release 1.4.1 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Broader application support Bugfixes: - Enhanced OpenGL conformance for applications using glCallList() within - Stability improvements to (beta) aware window manager | |||
| Revision 008 | April 2002 | ||
Updated for release 1.4.2 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. - Broader application support - Stability improvements to (beta) aware window manager | |||
| Revision 009 | October 2002 | ||
Updated for release 2.1 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Features: Replacement of the Transparent OpenGL (TGL) layer with a proxy render library and render servers Support for additional servers. The list of supported servers now includes the following: - Silicon Graphics Onyx - Silicon Graphics Onyx2 - SGI Onyx 3000, InfiniteReality - SGI Onyx 3000, InfinitePerformance - Silicon Graphics Octane2 | |||
| Revision 010 | May 2003 | ||
Updated for release 2.1.2 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Features: - Performance enhancements over the OpenGL Multipipe 2.1.1 and 2.1 releases - Increased application compatibility for vertex array applications - Option of running in master render mode or slave-only mode - Support for compositor-based systems - Seamless cursor movement across overlapped or composited screen regions (IRIX 6.5.20 or later required) - Support for SGI-SCREEN-CAPTURE and ReadDisplay X extensions in SGI Xinerama mode (IRIX 6.5.20 or later required) - An API introduced for integration of multipipe applications with SGI Xinerama - Hardware swap-synchronization option (Swap Ready, Genlock) - Support for additional platforms. The list of supported visualization systems now includes the following: o SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics o SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality graphics o SGI Onyx 350 o Silicon Graphics Octane2 o Silicon Graphics Onyx o Silicon Graphics Onyx2 | |||
| Revision 011 | July 2003 | ||
Updated for release 2.2 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Features: - Performance enhancements over the 2.1.2 release including the following: o Pixel drawing enhancements o Geometry culling, which can improve application performance for some applications beyond what can be achieved on a single pipe - Support for the DMX (Distributed Multihead X) meta display server - Support for DMX and SGI Xinerama meta display servers by the MPC API for multipipe-aware applications - Support for additional platforms. The list of supported visualization systems now includes the following: o SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics o SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality graphics o SGI Onyx 350 o Silicon Graphics Octane2 o Silicon Graphics Onyx o Silicon Graphics Onyx2 o Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision | |||
| Revision 012 | December 2003 | ||
Updated for release 2.3 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Features: - Performance enhancement options including (disabled by default): o SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics o SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality graphics o SGI Onyx 350 o Silicon Graphics Octane2 o Silicon Graphics Onyx o Silicon Graphics Onyx2 o Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision o Silicon Graphics Tezro | |||
| Revision 013 | April 2004 | ||
Updated for release 2.3.1 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Enhancements over OpenGL Multipipe 2.3: - Capability to expand the OpenGL viewport size beyond the single-pipe limit - Support for overlay visuals in the DMX proxy X server if supported by underlying X servers - Support for applications that use GLX pbuffers or GLX pixmaps - Improved application compatibility | |||
| Revision 014 | October 2004 | ||
Updated for release 2.4 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Enhancements over OpenGL Multipipe 2.3.1: - Support for most OpenGL Multipipe features on Silicon Graphics Vizualization System for Linux 64-bit platforms - Small object culling (small relative to screen space) - Drawpixels culling - Improved application compatibility | |||
| Revision 015 | November 2004 | ||
Updated for release 2.4.1 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Enhancements over OpenGL Multipipe 2.4: - Improved daemon processing - Improved support for static tiling modes of hardware compositors - Enhanced application compatibility | |||
| Revision 016 | January 2005 | ||
Updated for release 2.5 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Enhancements over OpenGL Multipipe 2.4.1: - Support for vertex buffer objects - The optional use of the omprun command on selected platforms - The use of X11 resources to control performance features as an alternative to command-line options on omprun - Improved application stability | |||
| Revision 017 | June 2005 | ||
Updated for release 2.5.2 of the OpenGL Multipipe product. Enhancements over OpenGL Multipipe 2.5.1: - Support fo - Support for multiple compositors - glDrawPixels() clipping now enabled by default (not tied to geometry culling) - Improved application stability and bugfixes
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