November 21st 5:00pm for 5:15 - 6:30pm 2007 — Subject: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with Java
Dr Michael Reid presents an overview of hardware accelerated graphics using Java with a focus on the Java OpenGL (JOGL, JSR-231) bindings.
Topics covered include:
- The capabilities of OpenGL, the industry-standard for workstation graphics
- Why choose OpenGL? a comparison of OpenGL to its competitors (primarily DirectX)
- Benefits Java brings to programming OpenGL/JOGL
- A discussion of the exciting new field of GPGPU, high-performance computing on modern video cards
- Uses for JOGL besides games
- The future direction of OpenGL, and
- Internet resources and how you can get started with JOGL.
Speaker
Dr Michael Reid
Dr Michael Reid is an independent software consultant with commercial experience using both J2EE and J2SE development platforms. He was awarded a PhD in Physics in 2002 where he developed software to find planetary gravitational microlensing events as part of the the New Zealand/Japanese MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics) project. He has been using Java since the first 1.0 beta, although performance concerns meant it became his primary development platform at version 1.2. Of particular interest are Java's capabilities in visualisation and computation.
Time/date
November 21st, 5:00pm for 5:15 - 6:30pm
Host
Ministry of Social Development
Enza House
11-17 Bolton Street
Wellington
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