When we were designing Blink 3D we knew that in order to take Web 3D to the next level we needed a high performance cutting edge graphics engine. In our search we examined and instantly discarded a number of respected graphics engines both commercial and open source.

When we looked at Ogre the bar was instantly raised, it easily fulfilled all our criteria and more. The clean, extensible, object oriented architecture was well suited to our needs. Some open source projects often consist of cryptic, un-maintainable, spaghetti code. The thing I like most about Ogre, is that I do not feel compelled to have a shower every time I touch the code.

Ogre has provided us with a solid, reliable base to build a powerful, ground-breaking, commercial platform. It provides a sufficient level of abstraction from the underlying rendersystems to provide a very simple interface balanced with the power to reach down to the hardware should it be necessary.

As an accolade to it’s stability, it has performed outstandingly in an embedded environment. The transparent portability has allowed the development under a Microsoft environment and subsequent deployment on Linux with painless ease. With constant ongoing development in a growing, and evermore supportive, community, we have visions of using this engine for many years to come.