From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263917AbTDYM26 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:28:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263926AbTDYM26 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:28:58 -0400 Received: from [65.244.37.61] ([65.244.37.61]:8497 "EHLO WSPNYCON1IPC.corp.root.ipc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263917AbTDYM25 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:28:57 -0400 Message-ID: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A9201FD92D3@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com> From: "Downing, Thomas" To: Daniel Phillips , Alan Cox Cc: Jamie Lokier , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: RE: Flame Linus to a crisp! Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:41:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Daniel Phillips [mailto:phillips@arcor.de] >On Fri 25 Apr 03 00:45, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 22:42, Daniel Phillips wrote: >> > A more mundane goal would be to prevent the 3D driver from letting you >> > see through polygons that are supposed to be opaque. >> >> In the MUD world we solved that by not telling anyone about objects they >> can't see. > > Doing the visibility calculations on the server, down to the pixel, is > possible but not really practical. > > Regards, > > Daniel Just goes to show that the VDU was the acme of the compute world, it's been all down hill since... ;-)