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Article #2448Re: 3D-graphics
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 12:54
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 12:54
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In article <18788@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
> On an Amiga?!?!? He said he wanted speed. To do this you would have to
> rewrite all the blitter functions in software.
That may be faster, if the mean size of polygons is smaller than X number of
pixels. For example, it's faster to display a standard 8x8 font with the CPU
than with the blitter.
--
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>
`-_-'
'U` "Really, a video game is nothing more than a Skinner box."
-- Peter Merel <pete@basser.oz>
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