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Re: RCX simulator ?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 14 Sep 2002 05:06:55 GMT
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Steve Baker <(sjbaker1@airmail.net)spamcake()>
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Andy Gombos wrote:
> Since when can Pov ray render an image of any useful size in realtime, or
> something approaching realtime?
Yes - it's using ray-traced rendering to get good realism. However, these
days you could do pictrures that are nearly as good with fancy OpenGL rendering
in realtime.
A modern 3D graphics card can easily draw at least a hundred thousand polygons
in "realtime" - so presuming you could model most Lego parts in about a hundred
polygons, you could draw ~1000 Lego parts in realtime...that should have most
Mindstorms robots covered.
> Very realistic, and realtime. However, it used OpenGL for
> rendering, and was a polygon based gradiant shaded method (Gurad? I haven't
> flipped through my 3d graphics papers in a while).
Gouraud - it's the shading technique where the graphics system computes the
effect of lighting on the colour of each vertex of every polygon - and then
interpolates between them to get the colour at every pixel. It's not as
realistic as ray-tracing - where you compute a unique lighting solution at
every pixel...but it's pretty good.
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