Lewis Sellers wrote:
> 
> 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.

All that said, they might make for a decent "dirty preview" mode, where
you could move a shaded/textured model around and choose camera
positions, etc etc. Perhaps.

-- 
Lewis A. Sellers: writer and contract Multimedia Website Developer
mailto:lse### [at] usitnet (The Fourth Millennium Foundation)
http://www.public.usit.net/lsellers/ & http://www.intrafoundation.com
http://brain-of-pooh.tech-soft.com/users/critters/bios/sellers_lewis.html

You can bug the living bejesus out of me live on ICQ @ 491461
(If I don't get back to you within a month, I'm out of prozac in some
dark corner somewhere screaming things quite unintelligable but -- most
curiously -- thick with a sumerian accent.)

"The comedy is over" -i pagliacci

Post a reply to this message