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Re: survey: accelerated 3D volumetric rendering [message #23964 is a reply to message #23958]

Tue, 27 February 2001 15:03

davidf
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Rick Towler (rtowler@u.washington.edu) writes:

> What are peoples experiences with accelerated 3d volumetric rendering. I am
> sure very high end unix viz workstations have the ability to accelerate
> volumetric rendering but what about lower end hardware. Is this the domain
> of high end video adapters only?
>
> In my case we have a Sun Ultra60 with the Creator3d framebuffer and PC's
> running consumer versions of nvidia's Geforce line. The Creator3d is
> painfully slow rendering anything. The Geforce cards are quite fast with
> your standard polygon rendering but volumetric rendering isn't supported in
> hardware.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this using nvidia's Quadro line or with
> 3dLabs cards? What about other platforms?
>
> fwiw, Sun just released the Expert3d lite which does support accelerated
> volumetric rendering and when bundled runs for $2000. I guess that is low
> end....

My experience with volume rendering with several different
"inexpensive" graphics cards for PCs is that software
rending is *always* faster than hardware rendering. (Not
to mention prone to far fewer rendering errors.)

I pretty much always have software rendering on as the
default, and I make *sure* I have it on for any object
graphics programs I distribute that have anything unusual
going on in them.

Cheers,

David
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		Re: survey: accelerated 3D volumetric rendering By: Paul Woodford on Wed, 28 February 2001 09:47
		Re: survey: accelerated 3D volumetric rendering By: Richard Tyc on Wed, 28 February 2001 07:31
		Re: survey: accelerated 3D volumetric rendering By: Randall Frank on Tue, 27 February 2001 21:30
		Re: survey: accelerated 3D volumetric rendering By: davidf on Tue, 27 February 2001 17:42
		Re: survey: accelerated 3D volumetric rendering By: Rick Towler on Tue, 27 February 2001 17:08
		Re: survey: accelerated 3D volumetric rendering By: davidf on Tue, 27 February 2001 15:03

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