Freezer

Author:

François Galea

Version:

0.1.0

Introduction

Freezer is a 3D engine and animation system for the Cell Broadband Engine processor.

Freezer is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence.

The 3D engine main characteristics are:

• Efficient use of SPE's for display acceleration. Used PPE CPU power is reduced to the minimum (almost zero).
• Support for triangles, quads, with optional extrusion mechanism for 2D ojects.
• Support for import of 3D objects in OFF file format.
• Available shading types:
  • flat shading
  • gouraud shading
• Accurate Z-buffered rendering.
• Automatic generation of normal vectors for flat-shaded objects, and for Gouraud-shaded objects.
• No support for textures (yet).

The animation system characteristics are:

• Available output environments: SDL, PS3 framebuffer, or file export for frames (BMP format).
• Double buffering.
• Eventual support for motion blur and fading effects.

Table Of Contents

• Installation of the library. This page indicates the procedure to generate the library from source code.
• Use Freezer in your own programs - Compile and execute a sample program.
• Freezer Quick Tutorial - A step-by-step tutorial about what you can do using Freezer.

Links

• The official Freezer website, where you can find the latest version of this documentation.
• The Freezer project page on Github, allowing to browse the source code and examine the different commits.