From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: 3D Renderer -- initial release
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 22:54:44 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jan16.225444.14065@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo



The 3D rendering program for 386 and 486 systems that Dave Stampe and
Bernie Roehl have been working on is progressing well.  The current
version (executable only till we polish things up) is on sunee.waterloo.edu
in the pub/3dview directory.

With a simple scene on a 486/25, we get 6 frames/second.
The "simple scene" has 512 polys in it (256 in each of two objects).

Future versions will be even faster.  The software uses floating point right
now; converting to integers should speed things up.  Also, Dave is working
on converting the code from C to assembler, producing another speedup.  The
goal is to reach 10 frames/sec or faster, though this may not happen for a
while.

Bernie is working on a better user interface, and format converters to let
us use objects from a variety of polygon-based formats.


	Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept
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