From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Feb 13 11:49:42 1997
Subject:  mesa lib (maybe some delivery problems with our CC-Mail)
From: "HOPFGARTNER, PETER" <phopfgartner at SMTPGWY dot memc dot inet dot it>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 19:41:22 EST

     Congratulations, I start to really like Octave!
     
     But last time I used MatLab I thought: with the Mesa OpenGL clone it 
     should not be to hard to write flexible and powerfull 3D Graphics like 
     the MatLab ones.
     
     I would like to work on this, but a REALLY have to work on my thesis 
     until August.
     
     Mesa has the following advantages:
     * It is distributed under GPL
     * It does all the hidden line, hidden surface and perspective 
     calculations, even the rendering with multiple light sources (remember 
     Mathematica(TM) Graphics?)
     * It seems to be quite flexible and produces beautyfull output
     * It runs on most major platforms, Unix, NT, Win95, Mac, Amiga, ...
     
                                        Peter Hopfgartner