Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Pyopengl same as opengl?

[Douglas S. B. <db...@br...>]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:20 -0400, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> I agree, the main bottleneck will be your other code.  Still, one can actually
> do quite a lot with Python and PyOpenGL, even if you desire interactive rates.
> Check out the (hundreds?) of games developed with PyGame (www.pygame.org), a
> library for writing games with Python and PyOpenGL.

I did some testing on a 2-CPU system a few years ago (circa 2003) and
found that my Python-loop which controlled an PyOpenGL display of a
robot updated over 1,000 times a second [1]. Of course, as you do more
in the Python loop, that time will drop.

-Doug

[1] http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/sigcse-03.pdf

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