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Re: Performance Improvement
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:30:38 GMT
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Damien Duquennoy wrote...
> Well, i think it's also possible to substitue some quads to the triangles. But i've made some tests with l3lab and there is no
> differences on rendering time between the triangle version and quad version of my disc.
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> Does someone know how quads are drawing by rendering programs : as a real quad, or as two triangles ?
L3Lab draws a quad as two triangles.
You can see this yourself, when you turn off dither-transparency and use true transparency.
Because the two triangles share a side, the quad-division line gets drawn twice
and is therefore darker.
I use two triangles because L3P already divided quads into triangles for POV,
and does the necessary bow-tie fixing.
Besides I saved implementing a polyfill routine :-)
> PS, By using quads, you get smaller files.
True, and fewer vertex transformations (matrix-vector multiplies) and half the color setup.
However, L3Lab's bottleneck is the actual drawing of the lines/triangles (90% of the time).
so the savings are hard to measure.
/Lars
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