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?

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Rene Horn wrote:
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> 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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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.

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Lewis Sellers <lse### [at] usitnet> writes:

> 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.

  Except that you'd have to tesselate every single object in your scene
into triangles and transform every single procedural texture into an image
mapping.  That would add a huuuge amount of code into POV-Ray.  And would
use sooo much time at run-time that the raytracing might just as well be
faster than the transformation itself.  Well, I suppose.

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