Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Features: Scene Kit Framework for 3D Apps

[jamescv7]

Developers familiar with the latest OS X Lion build have discovered a new development framework called Scene Kit, which enables implementation of 3D rendering within applications.

Reported by a developer who’s had contact with the folks at AppleInsider, the new Lion release allegedly boasts this new framework that will support the importation, manipulation and rendering of three-dimensional assets.

Apple will thus be able to pass the complexity of 3D graphics over to application developers, the report notes.

Similar to the Core Animation data visualization API introduced by Apple in OS X 10.5 Leopard, Scene Kit is reportedly "consistent" with the APIs of Apple's other graphical frameworks.

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