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February_1998
Re: Vector 3d??


From: The Grigsbeast ( )
Date: Wed Feb 25 1998 - 21:20:58 CST


>You would have to do a lot of pre calculated data
>to get it to run on old game hardware, but a modern CPU would be more than
>capable of keeping up. You could simulate the whole thing on a raster display
>using anti-aliased vector drawing code to try it out...

Shutter glasses would be extra-cool with a vector monitor. Just think --
with the extra CPU we have these days you could draw 3d _curves_. Yow!

Plus you could sort the display list in real-time for optimum vector
drawing instead of simply returning to 0 after every shape, giving you
effectively much more line length per frame.

// grigs


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