Talk:Scanline rendering

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The last sentence doesn't work well. Can you please edit it?

[edit] Use in nintendo ds & realtime generally

Just curious, I'd like to heard from anyone on the reason nintendo decided to go with hardware 3d scanline rendering in the Nintendo DS. I had long considered the technique dead for realtime. Even with floating point framebuffers, deep shaders, etc, the modern zbuffer seems to remain the weapon of choice.

I know that sony experimented with scanline rendering on the cell during the PS3's development, and I think they concluded it could not compete on power:price with modern GPUs.

Regarding the E&S ESIG stuff, i gather the EARLY machines did not have framebuffers. I would be suprised if that was still the case, given how much they help absorb overload, changing image-generation cost from scanline to scanling ... ... further: i just discovered later ESIG's used a hybrid approach .. sounding like Quakes' software renderer! 'list priority' for static scenery, then z-buffering for moving objects. Can anyone shed any further light on this ?

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Walter bz (talk • contribs) 18:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC).