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I hate Linux Graphics (Linux Hater's Blog)

Posted Jul 2, 2008 3:17 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)
In reply to: I hate Linux Graphics (Linux Hater's Blog) by paulj
Parent article: I hate Linux Graphics (Linux Hater's Blog)

I think the parent poster was referring to rendering other application's pixels as textures
onto a 3D model, as you might see when running a media player and using Compiz's cube desktop
switcher.

Is that what the O2 demo was doing, or was it just a single application using frames of a
video as textures?

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I hate Linux Graphics (Linux Hater's Blog)

Posted Jul 6, 2008 18:13 UTC (Sun) by kbob (guest, #1770) [Link]

Each of the O2 demos was a single process, as I recall.  Some of them were groups of earlier
demos glommed together, e.g., onto different cube faces, but they were recompiled into a
single executable.

They just demonstrated what the hardware could do.  That's why they were called demos.