pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) (09/08/89)
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?? Thanks, Pablo -- pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu Pablo Fernicola - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - UF "If we knew how it works, it wouldn't be called research."
bennett@galois.esd.sgi.com (Jim Bennett) (09/11/89)
In article <20845@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, pff@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@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@esd.sgi.com