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This is a Y mode (320x200x256 colors, 4 pages) polygon and line blitter
package. Written by Dave Stampe (27/1/92).
This contains routines to set the mode, set view and drawing pages,
draw and clip lines, and draw clipped and unclipped polygons.
Most of the routines are self-explanatory. The clipped routines
can accept any numbers between -32767 and +32767, and clip to the
bounding box specified by t_clip, l_clip etc...
The code is available for NON-COMMERCIAL use. If you want to do anything
commercial with it, please contact me once you finish development,
c/o broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.edu
Notes on speed: Measured on a 486/25 with a (pretty slow) Paradise VGA card:
(small polys, typical of fine 3D)
fastri() : 29,000 10x4 triangles/sec (no clippping)
poly3() : 19,000 clipped 10x4 triangles/sec
vgaline() : 13,700 25-pixel vectors/sec
(larger 24x24 polys, typical of coarse 3D)
fastri(): 3400 polys/sec
poly3() : 3200 polys/sec
Note that poly4() has bugs when used with tiny polygons such as may be
produced on the sides of 3D objects.
polyn() uses fastri() to draw n-sided polygons: not optimal, but it works.
A proper N-sided trapezoidal decomposition would be 50% faster on small polys,
but I haven't got around to it yet.