Balloon 3D

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon May 28 18:57:29 UTC 2007


On May 28, 2007, at 20:43 , Andreas Raab wrote:

> 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.

That was my hunch too, but without measuring I didn't want to loose a  
bet that easily ;)

- Bert -





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