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Defenitions

Anton Fedotov edited this page Oct 5, 2018 · 3 revisions

Pipeline units aggregation scheme

Engine

Engine is highest unit in pipeline. This provide initialisation of OpenGL and contains frames.

Frame

Frame is a 2D space in drawing window. For example, multiple frames can be used for visualise different data with different camera settings.

Frame contains scenes.

Scene

Scene is a container for objects. May be used for divide objects by a logical groups in frame.

Object

Object is a drawable unit. That assembly from vertices, colors, normals, etc. For exaple this may be point, sphere, point cloud etc.

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