Ik kwam op NV10.net een tip tegen over een newsgroup thread over T&L (geometry acceleration) op de NV10. Hier heb je twee postings uit dit draadje:
Have you seen hardware T&L on SGI machines? It doesn't just curve the arch, it literally transform the 3d scene into more realistic looking scenery. Take a look at current games characters' 3d figure, notice the polygon muscles, square looking nose and cubic cheekbone? With hardware T&L, you can get smooth contour on any polygons' angle. The result is very dramatic, it will get PC games closer to "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story" 3d quality. Without hardware T&L, a high-end workstation would not even be able to render such high quality 3d imagery onto the screen at acceptable framerates, let alone a PC.
- Robin HoodT&L are supported in OpenGL and Direct X 7.0 (but not previous versions of Direct X), OpenGL games that use the openGL functions for T&L will get immediate acceleration with Hardware T&L. For Direct X the story is different and developers will have to modify their code to take advantage of T&L. I think the only game that will immeadiat take advantage of the Hardware T&L is Quake3 (And Quake2).
- Wael Hendawi
De thread kan gevonden worden in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video met titel "NV10 needs AA to be competitive". Als je geen zin hebt om hiervoor je (verstofte) newsreader aan te kachelen kun je ook Deja.com gebruiken.
