[Coelacanth]

Thank for the reply, Jav. It is nice to know that improvements are on the way. My point, however, was that, assuming that the aquarium program is written in such a way as to take advantage of them, new video cards like those with the GeForce3 chip should be able to handle more animals (fish or otherwise) *without* having to employ workarounds like panning. If the thing can push more polygons a second (and the GeForce3 can push a boatload of 'em), then the more polygons you should be able to have on the screen at any one time and still maintain a good frame rate.