Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com (07/08/89)
The cover of this month's MicroCAD news was created on an Amiga! (The
July 1989 issue) The 13000 triangles were rendered, however on an AT&T.
With the new video card (which I haven't seen yet), are we soon going to
be able to render these wonderful images on our Amigas without having to
go on vacation? (By the way, that was an AT&T pixel machine--I assume
this is in a significantly higher price bracket than the Amiga.)
LadyHawke raz@kilowatt.uucp (Raz- Berry) (07/09/89)
In article <20218@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes: > The cover of this month's MicroCAD news was created on an Amiga! (The >July 1989 issue) The 13000 triangles were rendered, however on an AT&T. >With the new video card (which I haven't seen yet), are we soon going to >be able to render these wonderful images on our Amigas without having to >go on vacation? (By the way, that was an AT&T pixel machine--I assume >this is in a significantly higher price bracket than the Amiga.) > LadyHawke The new video card (which no one has seen yet) probably won't help with rendering anything. The A2630 would probably help a lot more ;-) The video card would more than likely enhance the resolution and color palette rather than the processing power of Ami. The AT&T pixel machine, would ray-trace an very complicated scene in *seconds*. Of course you would expect that with about 64,000 processors working in parallel to complete it. Try to get it to do somthing simple though (like blit a window around) and watch it fall on it's face. For my wish list, I'd like the new GVP 25mhz 030 card with plenty of 32 bit ram (oh I'd say about 6-8meg) and a fat hardrive, and perhaps a real nice monitor to display it on. You'd have to pry my cold dead fingers off of the keyboard if I had one of these. -- Steve -Raz- Berry Disclaimer: I didn't do nutin! UUCP: sun!kilowatt!raz ARPA: raz%kilowatt.EBay@sun.com KILOWATT: sun!kilowatt!archive-server archive-server%kilowatt.EBay@sun.com
higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) (07/10/89)
In article <20218@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:
$ The cover of this month's MicroCAD news was created on an Amiga! (The
$July 1989 issue) The 13000 triangles were rendered, however on an AT&T.
$[...] (By the way, that was an AT&T pixel machine--I assume
$this is in a significantly higher price bracket than the Amiga.)
$140K the last time I checked. STAGGERINGLY powerful box though.
820 MFlops. Watching it render is amazing because the parallel
processors work on different areas of the the display SIMULTANEOUSLY,
and the picture appears somewhat like seeing behind a leaf being eaten
by a hundred caterpillars!
Paul.