Re: [Update REQ 5501]: displaying geometry

[gbierner at cs.rice.edu]

> 
> The SGI GL version does handle concave polygons.  Getting concave
> polygons right is a tricky problem -- even OpenGL doesn't support
> them directly.  It looks like you grabbed the SunOS version of
> geomview, which uses our custom written renderer which assumes
> the polygons are convex.  *sigh* I don't know what to suggest
> other than not to give Geomview concave polygons.
> 
> - Tim
>

That's cool.  As long as I know that it's just not supported and it's not
my fault.  :-)

Gann