glewis@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Glenn M. Lewis) (09/06/87)
I just got Fish Disk #44, and my jaw dropped. Who was that masked person (Hi, Bryce :-) that created those ray-traced pictures? I think I saw a "DBW" in the "room" picture. Is Dave Wecker responsible for these beauties? (Are you there, Dave?) Or were these generated with Eric Graham's program? If you know who did these pictures, please use E-mail to tell me. If you have the source and executables, I would be extremely appreciative if you sent them to me! Also, it would be nice to have the .dat files that generated these works of art. Thank you. -- Glenn Lewis glewis@cit-vax.caltech.edu
ali@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer) (02/25/88)
---- Rather funny: In the latest BYTE (March '88), on page 80, in "What's New," there's the mention of "Tracer PC," a ray tracing package for the PC. The blurb mentions that you need a Targa 24-bit graphics card or a Number Nine Revolution 32-bit graphics board, a hard disk, and a math coprocessor. Apparently the software lets you move the camera around, change focal length, provides arbitrary levels of antialiasing, reflections, refractions, etc... Price, $3000. 4 pages later is a blurb (with a picture even, although somewhat green, at least in my copy) about Sculpt 3D. After the description, the price... $99.95. Just wish they'd put those two blurbs side by side. BTW, that's about the only mention of the Amiga I found in this issue... Except in some mail-order ads and the Manx ad. But next month's issue will have a review of A2000, apparently. Ali Ozer, ali@polya.stanford.edu