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 The OpenSG 1.6 version has been
released. Go here to download it.
A detailed changes list is available here.
(2005/08/26)
The OpenSG 1.4 version has been
released. Go here to download it. The main
enhancements are a new Starter Guide and many new features und bugfixes.
A detailed changes list is available here.
(2004/11/22)
We are working on a much improved Starter Guide a html and pdf version
is available here.
The final public event for OpenSG Plus will be held on December 12th at
Fraunhofer IGD. See this page for
program and details. The developers will be present to explain and
present their work, participation is free.
The OpenSG 2003 Symposium was held between
March 31st and April 2nd. The Proceedings are available in the Eurographics Digital Library
.
(2003/04/05)
The 3. full assembly of the OpenSG Forum
was held and HP was accepted as a new member.
(2003/03/20)
The OpenSG 1.2 version has been
released. Go here to download it. The main
enhancements are much more extensive documentation and new tutorials.
Aditionally the VertexProgramChunk and the FragmentProgramChunk have been added
as the first steps for programmability integration.
(2003/03/19)
The Call for Papers for the
OpenSG 2003 Symposium has been released.
(2003/01/13)
33 participants of the 2. Cave Programming
Workshop experienced an introduction into the open secrets of OpenSG today.
Starting from the basics via multi-threading to the different types of
NodeCores all the parts necessary to develop interactive OpenSG applications
were covered and applied in a final practical session.
(2002/10/03)
The presentation of the paper
A Multi-Thread Safe Foundation for Scenegraphs and its Extension to
Clusters at the
Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation was an
interesting event for everybody involved. The basic concepts of OpenSG
multi-thread programming and cluster distribution were explained in detail to
the 34 workshop participants.
(2002/09/10)
As part of the 2. Cave Programming
Workshop a one-day course on OpenSG will be presented. The covered topics
include everything from the basic concepts to the details for an interactive
OpenSG application, which will be applied in a practical session at the end of
the day.
(2002/09/08)
The Eurographics Panel
Beyond the Polygon Horizon: New Trends in Interactive Rendering was
received with high interest by the attendees. Representatives of the major
current areas in interactive computer graphics discussed the pros and cons of
their approaches in great detail and with high intensity.
(2002/09/05)
OpenSG will be present at the Eurographics 2002
conference as well as at the
Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualisation. At
Eurographics we organized the panel
Beyond the Polygon Horizon: New Trends in Interactive Rendering, at the
latter we will present the paper
A Multi-Thread Safe Foundation for Scenegraphs and its Extension to
Clusters.
(2002/08/12)
The OpenSG presence at SIGGRAPH was a
full success. Besides showing new demonstrations like the Slicer or heterogeneous clustering we got a number
of interesting new contacts as well as intensifying some old contacts.
Specifically the results of the HP and Sun contacts will probably manifest
themselves rather soon.
(2002/07/29)
OpenSG will be present at SIGGRAPH again
this year. Our booth number is 4063, and we will be demonstrating the latest
results, especially in the area of clustering. The Birds of a Feather session
will be held on Tuesday, July 23rd, in the Alamo Ballroom,
Salon A of the Marriott Riverwalk, right across from the Convention Center.
Looking forward to meeting you there!
(2002/07/12)
The OpenSG 1.1 version has been
released. Go here to download it. The main
enhancements are support for clusters and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Other
new things include Particles, Multi-Texturing, 3D- and Cube Textures and a host
of new foregrounds and backgrounds.
(2002/07/03)
The 1. OpenSG Symposium was held on January 29th. 75 attendents
witnessed a host of interesting talks about OpenSG. The papers can be downloaded
here.
(2001/01/31)
The submissions for the OpenSG 2002 Symposium have been accepted and the
final program has been fixed.
(2001/12/17)
The OpenSG 1.0 version has been
released. Go here to download
it.
(2001/10/19)
The OpenSG 'Birds of a Feather' meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 15th,
at 18:15 in room 511 of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
(2001/08/07)
OpenSG will be present at SIGGRAPH 2001 in our
booth (Nr. 2167). The goal of this event is to spread the news about OpenSG
and to get new people involved in the system development and applications.
(2001/07/15)
OpenSG PLUS had
an
appearance in the Heise-Newticker, one of if not the
most frequented german information technology web resources.
(2001/06/28)
The beta version has been
released. The goal of this release is to find contributors for the project. It
is a more useful than the alpha version, featuring materials and textures,
but there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Details are on the download page.
(2001/02/15)
On Jan. 31st the first full
assembly of the OpenSG Forum was held. Representatives of nearly all
members met in Darmstadt to get an overview of the first year of development of
OpenSG and to comment on the plans for further development.
(2001/01/31)
OpenSG PLUS has been selected as
one of 15 winning projects in the second round of the 'Virtual And
Augmented Reality' call of the german ministry for education and research
(BMBF). As a consequence 9 different research instituions and universities are
funded for the next 3 years to do reserach that can directly benefit OpenSG.
The project website is at www.opensg.org/OpenSGPLUS.
(2000/12/20)
OpenSG at SIGGRAPH: the core team used
SIGGRAPH 2000 to create awareness for OpenSG and to get a feeling for
the computer graphics scene in the area of scenegraphs in general and
especially OpenSG. To do that a Birds-of-a-Feather session was held, which
attracted about 25 participants from all over the world. In general we did our
best to show the OpenSG colors.
(2000/07/25)
The OpenSG forum has, together with a
group of german universities and research insitutes for computer graphics,
submitted a proposal called OpenSG PLUS as a part of the 'Virtual And
Augmented Reality' call of the german ministry for education and research
(BMBF). Out of the 173 submitted proposals 25 were accepted for a full
proposal, OpenSG PLUS being one of them.
(2000/07/03)
The first public alpha version
is here. It's purpose is to interest contributors in the project. It works,
but it is not complete and not optimized.
The details for access are on the
download page.
(2000/07/03)
After receiving the offical membership
registration forms, the member list has been
updated. Furthermore the english versions of the terms and conditions and the english membership registration form are available now.
(2000/05/28)
The SourceForge project page is up,
including the initial version of the design document.
(2000/05/03)
On January 28th 2000 the OpenSG
Forum was succesfully founded as a part of the Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V.. 50
participants from industry, mainly car, plane and plant design, and different
research institutions and universities unanimously agreed on the necessity of
such an initiative. An official press release (in german) is
here.
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