[PD] pix_draw flipped

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David Powers wrote:
> On 3/21/07, marius schebella <marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using python, but I am not an expert. I think GEM is faster for
>> image operations, since it is hardwarebased or at least c code.
>> and also I don't want to change my images at all, just display them
>> correctly.
>> the pix_info works great at the moment. I still will have a look at the
>> possibilities with PIL.
>> marius.
> 
> I think (please step in Gem developers) that the hardware acceleration
> only applies to 3d and not pix operations, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway

true, but [pix_texture] is a "3d" (that is: openGL) operation and 
therefore hardware acceleration applies.

[pix_draw] is usually NOT done in hardware (at least on non SGI machines 
;-)), that is why [pix_texture]+[rectangle] is recommended.


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