POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Demos : Re: Demos Server Time
11 Oct 2024 15:19:33 EDT (-0400)
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From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 30 Oct 2007 16:58:49
Message: <4727a919$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Um... lower the polygon count? That sounds like a *highly* nontrivial 
>> task. Arguably more work than actually rendering all the polygons. :-P
> 
>   Not if the driver has code specifically designed for the specific
> triangle mesh the benchmark program send it. It can simply have some
> kind of lookup table or something which substitutes some of the triangles
> with other (fewer) triangles.

...hmm, so *that* is why the nVidia video driver is over 200 MB...

(Seriously, are you NUTS?! Most drivers are about 20 KB.)


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