Jan Walzer wrote:

> Are lookuptables still needed today for these usages ?
> AFAIK first-person-shooters and thelike are using the FPU of the current
> processors, so there shouldn't be the need to "accelerate" the program
> this way....
> (of course, these games are using mostly a perspective camera)

I think so. You have much more vertexes than first person shooters in a 
modeler. Rendering the wireframe of the chess2.pov example takes half a 
second on my TNT 2 and a 433 celeron with a perspective camera.
And the perspective camera uses only simple transformations.

I think calling trigonometrical functions for each vertex would be far too 
slow (didn't tested it yet)

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