Josh Babcock

 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
> > On July 28, 2005 12:36 pm, Vivian Meazza wrote:
> >
> >>There was a theory going the rounds that it was the PAPI/VASI lights
> which
> >>were/are the cause of the significant drop of frame rate around
> airports.
> >>
> >>Vivian
> >
> > Why can't just model them?
> >
> > It is ridiculous to see each light taken only 4 pixels when the camera
> is only
> > a few meters away.
> >
> > Ampere
> >
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> I agree. Melchior's anticollison lights don't really hit performance at
> all. Given a property to tell them what color to be, this should be
> pretty trivial.
> 

I'm not sure that the PAPI/VASI lights are the problem. The FLOLS on the
carrier does the same job and they are quite vertex intensive, but don't
pull the frame rate down noticeably. 

Vivian 



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