From DirectX to WGF (Windows Graphic Foundation)

from http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18683
Next generation DirectX - WGF almost finished

MICROSOFT'S GRAPHIC group is very close to finally releasing the long awaited next generation DirectX. You can forget the name DirectX as Microsoft has decided to call this one WGF (Windows Graphic Foundation).

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3D Engine List and Directory

Here is the list of 3D Graphic Engine List/Directory.

Pretty new
http://www.3dengines.net/
http://www.devmaster.net/engines/

Old one http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ki/engines.html
http://www.3dengines.de/

Others http://fraktali.849pm.com/graphengines.html
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=category&qid=80

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3D in Microsoft Avalon

The next version of Windows will have build-in 3D engine.

First Avalon 3D Demo...
http://blogs.msdn.com/danlehen/archive/2004/06/01/146259.aspx
3D Basic and sample code for Avalon.
http://blogs.msdn.com/danlehen/archive/2004/07/19/188075.aspx
MSDN longhorn System.Windows.Media3D.
http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/ref/ns/system.windows.media3d/c/model3d/p/transform.aspx

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3D Visualizations

Some development-related links for 3D Visualization, including GIS(geographic information system) resources.
  • http://www.vterrain.org/index.html
  • http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/intelligent-robotics/3d/
  • http://www.3dlinks.com
  • http://www.gismonitor.com/

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    CsGL - C# graphics library

    CsGL (C sharp Graphics Library) implements a wrapper for the quite well known and powerful C-library OpenGL allowing any .NET language make use of it.
    It feature:
  • OpenGL 1.4 API and this list of extension
  • an extension "generator" in /extras/generator/generator.exe.
  • a font "engine", the CsGL.OpenGL.GDITextureFont. Demonstrated in the /examples/CS/gdifont.cs
  • mouse and keyboard classes (CsGL.Util.Mouse & CsGL.Util.Keyboard) for simplified event management. Demonstrated in /examples/CS/event.cs
  • a fullscreen window, able to change screen definition (CsGL.Util.ScreenForm). Demonstrated in the CsGLExamples.

    • http://csgl.sourceforge.net/

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    C# ExoEngine

    from
  • http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive231.html
  • http://www.exocortex.org/3dengine/exoengine-src.zip
    • "after writing about 600kB of code in C# it seems like it is a decent language after all and possibly an effective replacement for the C++ even in demanding field of real-time graphics. "

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    This section is for 3d image on dotnet platform

    About 3D, CAD, Animation, DirectX and others.
    Some resources:
  • http://www.flipcode.com/
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28000410
  • http://www.discreet.com

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