Subject: 3D Rendering package now available

From: Bernie Roehl <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 14:54:44 EST

A very fast 3D polygon-based rendering library is now available for 386
and 486 based systems.

Written by Dave Stampe and Bernie Roehl of the University of Waterloo,
the package costs nothing, and source will soon be provided.  The package is
copyrighted, but is free for non-commercial use.

The package is available for anonymous FTP from sunee.uwaterloo.ca in the
pub/rend386 directory.  If you want more information, contact Dave Stampe
([email-masked]) or Bernie Roehl ([email-masked]).

Technical details follow:

The package operates in 320x200 mode, with 16 colors.  The current color set
is a background color (currently blue) and 15 shades of gray which are used
for cosine lighting of polygons. 

On a 486/25, a 512-polygon scene can be rendered at 15 frames per second;
on a 386/33, the same scene can be rendered at 12 frames per second.  Higher
speeds can be obtained by reducing the number of polys; for example, 20 frames
per second can be obtained at 200 polys on a 486. 

At the moment, a demo program and a developer's library are available; the
source code for a (slightly slower) floating-point C version of the code
will also be released soon for those wishing to do development on their own.

Using the integer versions of the libraries, you can roll your own interface;
future versions will also allow you to customize lighting, colors and screen
modes.

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