[Mesa-users] Mesa3D new user Questions

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qui, 2014-10-30 at 19:48 +0200, belal medhat wrote: 
> Hi 
> sorry for disturbance 
> 
> I want to ask a question 
> 
> 
> I have a workstation its OS is Ubuntu 14.04.1 
> 
> it's CPU is Intel core i7 4th Gen 8M cash 4790  3.6 GHZ
> 
> it has 2 GPUs Nvidia Gefroce GTX 760 4G RAM 1152 CUDA cores 
> 
> 
> i am working on a scientific research in Bioinformatics 
> 
> in molecular structures dynamics and simulations 
> 
> i need to render and display 3D spheres for Atoms in molecular
> structures do basic transformations translations handle user input
> from keyboard and mouse 
> 
> change colors according to user commands
> 
> 
> i want to learn the latest Opengl language OpenGL 4.3 4.4 4.5 
> 
> i have installed Nvidia drivers it causes many problems in Linux 
> 
> so i have installed Intel open source graphics drivers and mesa3D 
> 
> because i have intel HD graphics 4600 with 20 processing unit and 1.7G
> memory
> 
> 
> my question to you  
> 
> Is OpenGL 3 enough for research basic 3D graphics with input handling 
> 
> what is the new in OpenGL 4 
> 
> when mesa3D will support OpenGL 4 completely 
> 
> what will happen if i try to run OpenGL 4 on mesa with intel drivers 
> 
> 
> someone said to me that even OpenGL 2 is enough for me even version 3
> contains a lot of features used in Game developing 
> 
> and mesa3D support now efficiently OpenGL 3.3 
> 
> so it is ok also you will have 2 GPUs for scientific computing and
> numerical computing 
> 
> and the improvements in OpenGL 4 for games like 3D fire   you will not
> need it in molecular structures 
> 
> 
> finally 
> i see that mesa3D has evolved very well  it is up to date i feel that
> it will support OpenGL 4 very soon before 2015 or in Q1 2015 
> 
> 
> and i need to tell you something 
> 
> Linux OS is the best OS ever for scientific research  we need the
> latest OpenGL for research not games 
> of course many people need it for writing Games 
> 
> anyway if mesa3D supports OpenGL 4.3 it will be a jump in Linux 
> 
> because Linux and mesa3d have open source for Intel Nvidia AMD 
> 
> so if it supports OpenGL 4.3 it will have advantages for accelerating
> via Intel HD AMD Radeon Nvidia GTX 700 900 series 
> 
> scientific research will be great 
> 
> Games Linux will be a station for 3D games free drivers free OS
> everything for free with a well documentation and well support for
> many years so instead windows have all Gamers 
> 
> Linux wiith mesa3D will also has its Gamers and it will be far great
> more than windows 
> 
> 
> 
> i know that mesa3D developers are under pressure everyone depending on
> them they have no much time 
> 
> 
> but if you write on social media sites and on your offacial websites 
> 
> facebook
> twitter
> 
> google+
> 
> mesa3D.org
> 
> freedesktop.org
> 
> Linux websites 
> 
> Ubuntu 
> 
> Fedora 
> 
> all distro for multimedia and games 
> 
> 
> that you want Linux has OpenGL 4.3 and more for scientific research
> for graphics design and web design for Games 3D advanced Games 
> 
> 
> if just mesa complete Opengl 4.3      a new era for Graphic design
> tools Games will be opened 
> 
> Thank you for your efforts waiting for your reply 
> 

I think Opengl 3 that is more than enough , since all games until now
use it.  

So Ubuntu ships all OpenGL that you need (look for xorg-x11, mesa3d
demos etc in Ubuntu ), you just need some program that let you make your
3D things . Even perl have an interface to openGL ( I think) 
if you like tcl/tk you got togl https://sourceforge.net/projects/togl/ 





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Sérgio M. B.