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- Hi.
-
- This is the second in a series of Stupid Picasso Tricks. ftriangles 1.0 displays
- random Gouraud-shaded triangles on a 24-bit 640x480 Picasso II screen.
-
- It takes one parameter, the number of triangles to display. The default is 10.
- You can safely run it with a very large number, as in 'ftriangles 1000000', and
- abort it when bored. Any mouse click or key should cause it to exit after the
- current triangle completes.
-
- If you feed it a negative number, such as -100, it will run in performance test
- mode. In this mode, it may not be aborted. To get results which may be fairly
- compared, you should leave the Picasso screen in front until it's done.
-
- Here are some performance results from my A4000/040:
-
- ftriangles -100
- drew 100 triangles in 27 seconds, performance of 3.70 triangles/second
-
- ftriangles -500
- drew 500 triangles in 131 seconds, performance of 3.82 triangles/second
-
- Have fun!
- _john
-
- grieggs@netcom.com
- johng@shell.portal.com
-