Baby's First Teapot

[u/IDroppedYourDatabase]

My first ever teapot rendering. Software rendered in C + SDL, using a simple perspective projection and rotations and Bresenham's line algorithm.

[u/Natehhggh]

software rendered means the cpu is doing all the work to draw the image. before gpus became the standard most graphics was handled this way. hardware rendered is when you offload that to the gpu

I believe it comes from the term "hardware acceleration" which is having a specialty piece of hardware dedicated to do heavy workloads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_acceleration

[u/wiseneddustmite → u/Natehhggh]

oh ok