[Open-graphics] paradigm shift to 'raytracing'

[Nick S-A]

On Nov 15, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Nick LaForge wrote:

>> What are the gimmicks?  All of the stuff is useful.  We've just  
>> boiled
>> it down to the least common denominator for both 2D and 3D.
>
> I mean 3D stuff that doesn't help 2D.  Obviously 'gimmick' status
> depends on point of view.

e.g. glVertex3* or other stuff with > 2 axis? I don't really remember  
anything blatant that is 3D only. Even the depth buffer can be used  
in certain 2D applications: http://supertux.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/ 
SuperTux (IIRC) and others. OpenGL.org even calls "OpenGL is the  
industry's most widely used, supported and best documented 2D/3D  
graphics API". Just curious as to what subset we plan on not  
including, or if that is to wait until we actually start writing code...

nick