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Re: Alternate 3D

To: REALbasic Games <realbasic-games at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Alternate 3D
From: Asher Dunn <asher at fireyesoftware dot com>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:17:26 -0400
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References: <BEAD086A dot 3047%acuipka at statrite dot com>

On May 15, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Adam Cuipka wrote:

    Arrays, for example, compose a critical point along the path for
rendering 3D graphics.  Therefore, the speed with which a language can
perform array operations critically affects the speed with which the
language can render a dynamic 3D environment.

When using OpenGL, OpenGL does the pointer array crawling, and all you do is pass a "pointer" to the array (a memoryBlock).

Asher Dunn
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President and Head Developer of Fireye Software <http://www.fireyesoftware.com/>
AIM and Yahoo: fireye7517

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