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(I know this is an old post, btw)
no! No! NO!
This is a HUGE misconception about 3D accelerators. It doesn't do ANYTHING
for POV-Ray because:
1) POV-Ray is not written for 3D accelerators.
2) The images POV-Ray generates are WAY too complicated for even the best 3D
cards.
3) The 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo2, the Voodoo Banshee, and even the new
Voodoo3 do NOT support anything other than 16-bit color in 3D accelerated
mode (that's 65535 colors).
I'm hyper, but you could probably tell how I wrote this message :) :) :) :)
:) :)
-Ian
P.S. MORE CAPPUCCINO, PLEASE!
Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote in message
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> s wrote:
>
> > If l used one of the newer 3-D video cards - Creative Lab's
> > Voodoo for instance would this significantly improve rendering time
and/or
> > quality ? I realise that these cards are manufactured for gaming but
could
> > they work or is it worth buying a decent PCI SVGA card ?
> >
> > Shaun.
>
> It might make your images look prettier but it will have
> no effect at all on your rendering time. The reason for
> this is because Pov uses very complex mathmatical
> calculations that simply take a lot of CPU power to
> process. The video card on the other hand is a fast,
> almost real time device. It just sits there, waiting on
> your CPU to finish what it's doing, before it passes
> on a little more of the image to be displayed.
>
> Ken Tyler
>
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