On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:24:21 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

>In article <3c0d5211.36647845@news.povray.org> , ken### [at] uniplanit (Angelo 
>'kENpEX' Pesce) wrote:
>
>> ?!? They are windows demos, they use directX
>> If you want to be impressed more, download fresnel2 (it requires a
>> fast 3d openGL card) or rtrt intros by spinningkids and by mfx
>
>I downloaded and tried naturesuxx on a Celeron 400 running under Win ME with
>128 MB.  At 320*240 with all features enabled it didn't get over 10
>frames/second, which I don't exactly consider "realtime".  Granted, the
>graphics card is from a previous PC and with 2 MB of DRAM.  However, at
>320*240 that shouldn't be a bandwidth bottleneck.  I will try it on a faster
>system tomorrow...
>
>> If that's the problem with your easter egg, just download the tinyPTC
>> library... :) It's available for maaaaaaany plattforms, and it will
>> give U an high performance display window (directx, videoforwindows or
>> gdi for windows, dunno for others, of coz directx is the faster way)
>
>Well, it is just an Easter egg coded in less than 250 lines total.  Anything
>else would just bloat the code.  Of course it can be done much faster with
>much more code and time...

tinyPTC is really tiny... 3-4kb of additional compiled code... and not
much more of source --> www.gaffer.com or .org...

>
>     Thorsten
>
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