Feature request : ANARI support

[jsorel]

Hello,

Recently Khronos released the first version of ANARI.
To make it short it's a basic API for 3D rendering.

Javafx has some simple 3D capabilities, and I believe there isn't a huge interest in the community to make a full 3d engine in javafx, it's not it's purpose.

But still, being able to do some 3D rendering is more and more useful for data visualisation.

Make a full 3D engine is a lot of work but implementing ANARI would not be so hard I believe and there are multiple benefits.

• the API exist in simple C-99, a raw translation to java would work.
• it is a fixed version : ANARI 1.0
• it hides all the boiler plate code of rendering, offering only simple scene configuration
• it offers enough capabilities for professional applications (which are not games)

What is the javafx dev team opinion on it ?

[jsorel]

no interest at all ?

[nlisker]

You're in the wrong repository. This one is for the website.
The correct repository with instructions is under https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md. You will want to send an email to the mailing list.
Also, this has been discussed in the past, but feel free to surface it again.