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Nacho Sanz-Pastor. Computer Arts + Developments (nacho++at++comarts.es)
Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:22:41 -0700


On Jun 20, 9:44am, John Rohlf wrote:

> 2.0 has sophisticated sorting features including:
>
> - sorting within pre/post draw callbacks
>
> - user-configurable state sorting hierarchy; you can sort by any
> PFSTATE_ elements in any order
>
> - front-to-back or back-to-front spatial sorting
>
> - coarse specification of rendering order provided by "draw bins", e.g. -
> the OPAQUE bin is drawn before the TRANSP bin
>
>-- End of excerpt from John Rohlf

  Hi,

   Does anyone have statistics on timings for the sort operations in a generic
test database for the different modes and different CPU configs ?

   In the new multiproc culling, can you assign a separte process just to sort
the database back to front ?

   Thank you,

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