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Date:      Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:07:48 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        van.woerkom@netcologne.de, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New 3D software available 
Message-ID:  <199909050007.RAA89166@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Sep 1999 00:22:00 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909050020150.2081-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> 

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Cool!

For me hardware acceleration will probably be fine with my TNT2 agp board 8)

This is all great . I will have to rebuild my PIII box to try out your
new specify super duper 3d package !

	Tnks A Million!

> On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > 
> > van.woerkom@netcologne.de said:
> > >   I tried this under X11 (with riva-glx 3d acceleration) and got a
> > > nice 
> > >    animated teapot, rendered by Mesa.
> > 
> > Most cool!
> > 
> > Say how is the performance of hardware acceleration vs. software rendering?
> 
> Hardware is hugely faster - Mesa is not a very fast software renderer. We
> have been considering writing a decent software renderer for QDraw but we
> don't have the time just yet.
> 
> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037
> 
> 

-- 

 Amancio Hasty
 hasty@rah.star-gate.com




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