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Mention of Quesa Project?

I think it may be appropriate to mention the Quesa project, an open-source library based on the QuickDraw 3D API and using OpenGL as its low-level rendering engine. Since I am an administrator on that project, it might be considered a conflict of interest for me to make that edit. -- Jwwalker

Has Quesa "outgrown" QD3D in any way since it started? Sort of like how the Racket (programming_language) grew from the PLT dialect of Scheme, but is now considered a more-or-less separate language. An example for Quesa might be being able to directly access shaders and GLSL with reference to a single object face (I don't know if a per-surface shader is a feature or not) Jimw338 (talk) 17:39, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ship Date?

When did QuickDraw 3D first ship? --Jwwalker 16:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like 1995: [1]

We should probably look for at least some prerelease coverage indicating how far back development started, and list of version release dates, though. 66.8.153.181 (talk) 07:39, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Quickdraw.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Overall Tone

This article seems to take a very positive stance on the technology especially in regards to it's approach compared to other technologies of the time. It's an old product that I'm sure had it's uses but the overall vibe of this article lacks any form of objective neutrality —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.60.3.17 (talk) 20:08, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, reading the article it gives the impression that the architecture and API model of QD3D would've been clearly preferrable for application programmers, compared to those of OGL or D3D. For instance, however, Microsoft provided a very similar layer in early version of Direct3D, called Retained Mode. It was discontinued again very quickly (after DirectX 3.0) because almost no commercial software used it. Clearly, the overwhelming majority of developers actually preferred to work on a lower level, closer to hardware (which was originally called Immediate Mode in Direct3D). I'm not familiar enough with how QD3D worked to know whether and how to mention this in the article though. 188.63.151.199 (talk) 15:02, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:

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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 14:21, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]