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I'm building an open source specialized 3D ray tracer to explore relativistic phenomena (general relativity, not special). The end result may look superficially similar to Celestia, but may be quite different "under the hood". The program will be a simulator - the images will be physically realistic...

(not sure if this is where I should post the question, or in a different forum) I am writing a small application that is supposed to draw several objects on a background represented by distant stars. That's pretty much like Celestia. The background does not have to represent a real portion of the sk...

I'm suspicious at your gl.h... seems an newer version of the Mesa libraries (4.0.4). I dunno, my RPM database claims it comes with XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2 Also I forgot to include glx.h in my query, as the errors seem to be related to it (sorry just got up from bed). No problem. Snippet is below. The...

On my system, gl.h and glu.h are owned by the XFree86-devel package. Anyway, here are the sizes: 91513 Feb 27 08:21 gl.h 15916 Feb 27 08:21 glu.h And here are snippets... gl.h /* $Id: gl.h,v 1.16 2002/12/16 16:18:25 dawes Exp $ */ /* * Mesa 3-D graphics library * Version: 4.0.4 * * Copyright (C&...

My system is Linux Red Hat 9, on an NForce-based motherboard (MSI). The graphics card on these boards is embedded, using the GeForce2 chipset. I'm using the latest RH kernel update, and the latest official NVidia driver, compiled on this same system. The graphics system seems to be working fine, i d...