d4umf@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Forsberg) (08/10/90)
Hello everyone, I have a question regarding what to buy to be able to make computer animation, and record it on video. I have had the following system in my thoughts for a while : Some sort of i486 based computer (PC-compatible). Maybe Compaq, HP , Dell or some other brand. VGA-Producer for making TV signal out of VGA standard. This card seems to be the best for PC systems acording to PC Magazine. A Time Laps video to be able to record frame by frame. AG6720 by Panasonic has S-VHS and one-shot recording possibilities. Some public domain raytracer. DKBTracer, rayshade, DBWrender? Animator by Autodesk (they make AutoCad) I have only seen this on a video, it seems to be a very useful program when animating objects. A graphics card called SPEA with an i860 processor. This card can emulate a VGA window, but primarily I want to use the computing power of the i860 processor. Maybe a Weitek math coprocessor W4167 for the i486 PC. Primarily used when raytracing. A 24bit framegrabber with 512*512 pixels resolution, made by HI RES Technologies. This I will use to grab pictures from other material that I want to use. This amounts to about 25000 dollars which is my top limit. Now I both want opinions on the setup that I have been looking at, and some opinions of other system setups, maybe UNIX machines. What I can spend is about 25000 dollars, but then I want a similar system to what I described above, ie. something that can record frames one at a time and have atleast the resolution that Super VGA has (800*600 pixels with atleast 256 colors). I think that I have seen discussions of this before in this newsgroup so I am hoping that someone will answer my questions. Thanks in advance! Martin Forsberg d4umf@dtek.chalmers.se
jmarvin@oracle.oracle.com (John W. Marvin) (08/22/90)
In article <1990Aug9.182640.4509@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> d4umf@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Forsberg) writes: > > Hello everyone, I have a question regarding what to buy to be > able to make computer animation, and record it on video. I have > had the following system in my thoughts for a while : > > Some sort of i486 based computer (PC-compatible). > Maybe Compaq, HP , Dell or some other brand. > ... more specs deleted to save space... > This amounts to about 25000 dollars which is my top limit. > > > Now I both want opinions on the setup that I have been looking at, > to what I described above, ie. something that can record frames one > at a time and have atleast the resolution that Super VGA has (800*600 > and some opinions of other system setups, maybe UNIX machines. What > I can spend is about 25000 dollars, but then I want a similar system > pixels with atleast 256 colors). I think that I have seen discussions > of this before in this newsgroup so I am hoping that someone will > answer my questions. > > Thanks in advance! > > Martin Forsberg > > d4umf@dtek.chalmers.se An alternative: Amiga 3000, 25Mhz, 68882 Math Chip Diga-View 4.0 24 bit color digitizer (NewTek) or Living Color TBC/Digitizer 24 bit color digitizer (Digital Creations) or Video Toaster 24 bit color digitizer & editing system (NewTek) Frame Buffers: Video Toaster comes with one or, FrameBuffer (Mimetics) or, Living Color Frame Buffer (Digital Creations) Genlocks: Video Toaster (again, NewTek) OmniGen 721 (Omnicron Video) RM-2B Professional Genlock for Amigas (GlennLoc) SuperGen 2000S (Digital Creations) 3D Animation: Sculpt-Animate 4D, includes Ray Tracing (Byte by Byte) 3D Professional (Progressive Peripherals & Software) Turbo Silver, includes ray tracing (Impulse) Caligari Pro Animate (Octree Software) Vendors: NewTek 913/354-1146 Digital Creations 916/344-4825 Omnicron 818/700-0742 Mimetics 408/741-0117 GlennLoc 703/273-5663 Byte by Byte 512/343-4357 Progressive Periphs 303/852-4144 Impulse 612/566-0221 Octree 212/262-3116 Unless you buy all the above, you should stay under $25K easy! ******************************************************************* * Nhoj Nivram * * email: jmarvin@oracle.com * * "Reality is a Harsh Mistress..." * *******************************************************************