Balloon 3D

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon May 28 18:43:04 UTC 2007


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On May 28, 2007, at 19:35 , Cesare Marilungo wrote:
> 
>> Regarding the OLPC, there's Mesa3D (http://www.mesa3d.org/).
> 
> I'd bet that Balloon3D's software renderer is at least as fast as 
> Mesa's. Both are currently too slow for the OLPC (which runs at 
> 1200x900x16 on a performance-challenged 400 Mhz CPU). That's why Mesa is 
> not shipped on the OLPC system.

Unless the Mesa software renderer has seen *significant* work in the 
last years I would expect the B3D software renderer to beat the hell out 
of it. I wrote it because back in the days (with 200MHz computers) Mesa 
was too slow for running the software simulation. Nowadays on my measly 
1GHz notebook I can run Wonderland from 3.6 in approx. 600 at 400 with 25fps.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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