Zbuffering
Jim Bennett
bennett at galois.esd.sgi.com
Mon Sep 11 06:11:21 AEST 1989
In article <20845 at uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, pff at beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) writes:
> When buying the machine, we were given the impression that there would be a
> software implementation of Z-buffering. We were told that it would be much
> slower than the hardware, but that your application code would be the same,
> independent of you running the hardware or software z-buffering. Is
> there any truth to this??
There is no support for software Z buffer on the current Personal Iris, and
none planned from SGI. There is, however, a third party solution called
"Soft Z". I don't know anything about this product, other than its name,
but perhaps your sales rep. can dig up something for you.
> pff at beach.cis.ufl.edu Pablo Fernicola - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - UF
> "If we knew how it works, it wouldn't be called research."
Jim Bennett bennett at esd.sgi.com
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