Rene Horn wrote:
> 
> Why doesn't the POV Team ever take advantage of things such as 3d
> accelerating hardware like Voodoo2 and D3D or 3d accelerating software
> like OpenGL and Direct3D?  Wouldn't it run faster?

A little as far as displaying the renders. Not much else though.
Completely different things. Most 3d accel cards focus on the rapid
manipulation of textures essentially plastered on 3d wireframes. Very
dif than raytracing.

A 3d accel card is pretty useless to povray.



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