From: Denis Mertz <dmertz@...>
Date: 2005-03-01T01:37:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Rendering ruby openGL output to a file.

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:26:52 +0900, Brian Schr�der wrote:

> Hello Group,
> 
> I don't know if this is off topic, but at least a ruby program is
> involved. I have written a small ruby script that renders some things
> using the opengl ruby library. Now I want to include the images into
> my thesis, and I'd like to use a higher resolution that what my screen
> can give. Is it possible to render the image not onto the screen, but
> into a file, using a bigger-than-screen resolution? I'm quite an
> opengl newbie so maybe this is obious?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Brian

You can do that with the Mesa off-screen rendering library (OSMesa)

http://www.mesa3d.org/osmesa.html

Ciao

dm1