[Pysdl-devel] pflame test

[Pete S. <pe...@sh...>]

ok, i've finished my first decent version of python flame!

i've left enough comments in the actual source, but to help
discussion... the program runs at about 15fps on my celeron
400 with a TNT2. currently, about 60% of the running time
involves transferring the image the numeric python array
to the sdl surface.

this transfer has to be done with an expensive python
loop, but it will be simple to create a C extension to
do it, at which point my little pflame should get above
24fps

the other thing i want to do is pixel-doubling. first
i'll see if using SDL's scaled BLT is fast enough, i'll
also compare that to doubling the image in numerical
python.

anyways, here's the code. you'll need both .PY files in
the same location. this is running with pysdl 0.0.5, so
no need to worry if your not up to the latest release.

i'm curious to see how (un)quickly this runs on different
equipment and os's. if anyone can prune some more speed
onto this thing, let me know!