3d programming without opengl

[Richard Jones]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
>>> Pure Python doesn't necessarily imply "no graphics drawing code written
>>> in some other language", though.  You can get pretty far by using a 2D
>>> library for simple 3D rendering.
>> 
>> Someone wrote a 3D demo for the pygame.draw challenge*. It worked but
>> unfortunately he didn't end up finishing and submitting it. It had severe
>> performance limitations :)
> 
> someone just posted this to reddit:
> 
>      http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html
> 
> which I'd say qualifies as simple 3D with pretty decent performance
> given what it does and what platform it runs on...

OK, that's a pretty cool demo :)

My definition of "severe" would involve a slow-down if you tried to render
several of those relatively simple objects :)

On my Althon64 3500+ system running in Konqueror or Mozilla I can get four
windows viewing that page before performance really starts to drag.

I should convince Alex to dig up that old code - I always was curious to see
it. Hmm.


    Richard