Re: Projective image transformations

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 23:59:19 -0700, Jon Leech wrote:
>
>    I'm surprised that XFree86 seems to be unconcerned with the 18-24
>month timeframe in which most PC graphics hardware will have fully
>programmable transform and raster engines, huge amounts of per-pixel
>memory, and support high-precision floating point throughout the
>graphics pipeline, among other good stuff.

What makes you think so?

The state-of-the-art PC graphics card today is not all that much different from 
the state-of-the-art PC graphics card of 24 months ago.  We've seen incremental 
improvements like ubiquitous alpha blending and improved texture compression, 
and we've seen evolutionary increases in frame buffer memory, but I guess I 
would be surprised to find either "huge amounts of per-pixel memory" or "high-
precision floating point throughout the graphics pipeline" in mainstream 
graphics cards 24 months from now.

--
- Tim Roberts, [email protected]
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.