Messages in this thread | | | From | "Downing, Thomas" <> | Subject | RE: Flame Linus to a crisp! | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:41:06 -0400 |
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From: Daniel Phillips [mailto:phillips@arcor.de]
>On Fri 25 Apr 03 00:45, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 22:42, Daniel Phillips wrote: >> > A more mundane goal would be to prevent the 3D driver from letting you >> > see through polygons that are supposed to be opaque. >> >> In the MUD world we solved that by not telling anyone about objects they >> can't see. > > Doing the visibility calculations on the server, down to the pixel, is > possible but not really practical. > > Regards, > > Daniel
Just goes to show that the VDU was the acme of the compute world, it's been all down hill since... ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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