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pseudopresence
Mar 3, 2005

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Nuke Mexico posted:

One of the few reasonable STL re-implementations was done for the pupose of exposing more memory-management options, i.e. using a pool- or cached allocator of some point, so I might be able to buy that. There's almost never any excuse for re-implementing your own vector or linked list or hash table yourself "because it is faster" because it almost certainly never is.

Link to dis:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html

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pseudopresence
Mar 3, 2005

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Zakalwe posted:

Ray tracing/casting is computationally expensive. With M rays and N triangles, you get M*N intersection tests. Let's say you're rendering a 1024x1024 image with 1 ray cast per pixel and 6 million triangles. That's 1,048,576,000,000 intersection tests per frame.

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My advice? Stick with the rasterisation for this application at least.

Wasn't the idea of the raycasting suggestion to skip the triangles altogether though, and just march through the volume data?

pseudopresence
Mar 3, 2005

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Adhemar posted:

Better to leave the image in the centre and move the inputs to the left to line up with it. Please.

And right-align the text labels!

Edit:

This is going to be the best in-house configuration tool ever! :neckbeard:

pseudopresence fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jul 8, 2008

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