RE: VRML browser via X-Server?

Jan Hardenbergh ([email protected])
Mon, 08 May 95 17:29:00 E


> I don't have an SGI system at hand, and the NT VRML browser is not
> yet available. I was wondering, then, if it is possible to access a site
> via my X Server so that I could use a browser running from a remote site,
> presumably an SGI system.
>
> 1. Is this possible?

Yes, it is possible - in theory. It could use the GLX extension and send
OpenGL
commands to your workstation which has the GLX extension. Or we could hope
for a PEX based implementation? Since the rendering would happen locally,
that would be OK, but the viewing control would still make a round trip, so
that might
be kind of a drag - but no worse than typing over the net.

Another solution would be the rendering think at the Geometry center (the
OOGL
folks) which would render and send a bitmap.

> 2. Is this available?

Not to my knowledge.

-Jan