Subj : RE: Graphic Card Upgrades
To   : Bob Worm
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Jul 12 2025 12:22:20

  Re: RE: Graphic Card Upgrades
  By: Bob Worm to dingo on Fri Jul 11 2025 10:13 pm

 BW> Something, something, convex hulls :) I do remember being told once that
 BW> in 3D graphics everything is triangles and that you could only see the
 BW> ones where the points go clockwise. I dunno if that's still the case but
 BW> it seemed to be in the Quake era.

What does "the points go clockwise" mean? I've heard about triangles in computer graphics too, but maybe there's something I'm missing..  Do you mean the order they're drawn in?  I didn't think there was an order to the points of the triangles.  Also, I thought it was fairly common for graphics to be drawn in RAM before the final image is rendered on-screen.

Nightfox
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