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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 19:12:39 +0200
- From: Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de (Norbert Unterberg)
- Subject: Re: graphics question
- Message-ID: <18b6d794@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org>
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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- X-Comment-To: bonney@esds.mdc.com (Greg Bonney)
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- GB> Is it possible to write fast 3-D graphics applications under Windows? Is
- GB> there any way to do page flipping in a window? I'm new to Windows
- GB> programming, so I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions. I've already
- GB> thought of using fixed- point math and trig look-up tables. Any
- GB> suggestions on how to (or how not to) implement these?
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- Windows does not support 3D graphics, you have to do the calculations yourself.
- Neither does it support video page flipping or multiple video pages. So 3D
- animation or flicker free animation at all is a very hard thing (I guess) to do
- in windows.
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- Norbert
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