maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Gemini PDA (the return of the Psion Series 5MX)

	pacman	2017-08-30 , 13:09
	Posts: 89 \| Thanked: 532 times \| Joined on Sep 2015	#70

Originally Posted by pichlo

It is a GPU feature to accelerate the rendering of 3D scenes on a 2D screen. I am not aware of any use case other than in some action games. I am not a gamer, can anyone who is tell us how many such games exist in Linux? And how important it is to be able to play them on a phone/PDA?

Scientific computing applications sometimes benefit from technology developed to support games. One example that I am familiar with is the crystallographic structure visualisation package Coot:. Here are some screenshots:

http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/person...b/screenshots/

This package definitely benefits from 3D rendering. Having said that, few people would try to do serious work with a package like this on a PDA-format machine

Quote & Reply |

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to pacman For This Useful Post:
juiceme, pichlo