From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Sep 4 16:20:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66FD15232 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:20:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA47007; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 00:22:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 00:22:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Amancio Hasty Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New 3D software available In-Reply-To: <199909042206.PAA88399@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message