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From: ads@canon.co.uk (Adam Billyard)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Rendering performance
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.162712.1905@canon.co.uk>
Date: 29 Apr 91 16:27:12 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Europe, Guildford, UK
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Does anyone have any benchmark figures for 3D polygonal software
rendering systems?

I'm getting around 18,000 polygons/second on a Sparc 1 and 37,000
polygons/second on a Sparc 2 using a 3751 polygon object (a teapot in a
300x300 viewport). 

I'm interested in developing simple 3D rendering software; by simple I
mean a constant shaded polygon is the only primitive.  Point and distant
light sources are supported along with a bog standard synthetic camera model. 

The impetus is to get away from a reliance on 3D support in hardware
which is both static and expensive. Its kind of nice to run my stuff on
faster machines and see such dramatic speed increases..

More to the point, are there any interactive 3D graphics packages
available for Suns/Macs? What sort of rendering rates do they offer?


	Cheers,

		Adam.

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