Can I run a 3D graphics application on a UNIX system and display the graphics remotely on a Windows PC?
Yes, this is possible. You would need to have installed an X server on the PC, and in particular it would need to support the GLX extension because GLX is the protocol that UNIX OpenGL implementations send over the network. If you want 3D acceleration (and this would be highly desirable), the X server’s GLX implementation must be able to take advantage of the 3D hardware accelerator installed on the PC. We know of two PC X server vendors that do support the GLX extension and offer support for hardware acceleration: Hummingbird and WRQ. There may be others. Open Inventor 3.0 and Beyond An X server without GLX will not work if an Open Inventor version prior to 3.0 is used. With Open Inventor 3.0 and its new remote rendering feature, one can display from a UNIX host to a vanilla X server — but the performance will not be very good because X does not provide image compression. This scenerio of displaying on a remote PC having an X server (but no GLX) would be OK for crude tests but certai
