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In article <1992May13.2...@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ceba...@napier.waterloo.edu (Casey Barton) writes:
>       I FTP'd Apogee's new Wolfenstein-3D. I was really impressed with
>the Stygian Abyss's texture-mapped 3D graphics, but Apogee could teach the
>guys at Origin a thing or to. The graphics in W3D are a little more basic 
>than SA, but wow, are they fast. With a full screen window, W3D updates at
>least twice as fast as SA set to a comparable detail level. If this 
>technology becomes common, we can expect a whole slew of texture-mapped
>3D games. Flight sims may never be the same...

   Are we gonna have to go through this all over again? Are we going to have
to explain to this fellow as well that W3D's objects look the same from any
direction. Will we have to remind him that position in W3D is a 2-D plane
as opposed to UW's 3-dimensional graphics? Does he have to be told that UW has
to worry about lighting, and W3D does not? Do we need to instruct him on
the differences in time complexity between an algorith that has to consider
a 3-D position and an algorithm that only has to consider a 2-D position?
I sure hope not. We just went through this, and it was old the first time
through. ;)


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