scm@onion.UUCP (04/03/87)
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Can anyone tell me the address of a company called "Island
Graphics"? I think that it is in California, but I'm not too
sure.
Secondly, I've been told that there is a company called "Alias
Research Corp." in Toronto which might specialise in producing
high-realism ray traced images. Can anyone confirm that that is
what Alias do, if they even exist?
Thanks.
Sender: scm@onion.cs.reading.ac.ukjosh@hi.UUCP (04/05/87)
In article <313@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk> scm@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk (Stephen Marsh) writes: >Can anyone tell me the address of a company called "Island >Graphics"? I think that it is in California, but I'm not too >sure. Island Graphics live in New York. They do all their work on a Sun. >Secondly, I've been told that there is a company called "Alias >Research Corp." in Toronto which might specialise in producing >high-realism ray traced images. Can anyone confirm that that is >what Alias do, if they even exist? > Thanks. Use WaveFront Graphics. They do VERY good work and everybody (including Lucus) run their software on the machines of choice. > >Sender: scm@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk WaveFront producing VERY good images but they need real machines to do it on. As far as I know, to do real animation is about a $250K project. Cheap considering that some Graphics housing charge $300K per minute..:-) --Josh Siegel -- Josh Siegel, Project Asst. | Internet: siegel@hc.dspo.gov Electrical and Computer Eng. | UUCP: hc!siegel University of New Mexico | (505) 277-1611 (Lab) Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 | (505) 277-2497 (Home)
aaa@pixar.UUCP (04/07/87)
In article <3469@hi.uucp> josh@hi.UUCP (Josh Siegel) writes: >In article <313@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk> scm@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk (Stephen Marsh) writes: >>Can anyone tell me the address of a company called "Island >>Graphics"? I think that it is in California, but I'm not too sure. > >Island Graphics live in New York. They do all their work on a Sun. > >>Secondly, I've been told that there is a company called "Alias >>Research Corp." in Toronto ... > >Use WaveFront Graphics. They do VERY good work and everybody > (including Lucus) run their software on the machines of choice. Come on now, let's get it right. Island, Alias and Wavefront, as well as their competitors, are all on the net, so none of this is going to go unnoticed. For the record: Island Graphics Corp., 4000 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA, USA 94903 Specializes in paint and image processing packages written on commission for microcomputer manufacturers, et al. Alias Research, 111 Queen St E, Toronto, Canada, M5C 1S2 Animation and CAD software/hardware turnkey systems running on an Iris workstation, Pixar Image Computer and Celerity supermini. Does include a raycaster (yes, caster) as its high-quality renderer. Wavefront Technologies, 530 E Montecito, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 93101 Animation and CAD software/hardware systems running on various hardware including Sun,Ridge,PixarIC,Iris,etc. Includes a famous ray tracer as its high-quality renderer. As far as I know, neither Alias nor Wavefront do animation services. They sell software. There are also other companies in this market which I know less about, including both Vertigo and NeoVisuals in Canada. *** Apologies in advance to anyone I left out or misrepresented. *** Neither LucasFilm nor Pixar "run" Wavefront software. All of Pixar's in-house animations (including the "stained-glass man" sequence in "Young Sherlock Holmes" and Academy Award nominee "Luxo, Jr.") were done entirely with in-house proprietary software. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <std_disclaimers.h> Tony Apodaca PIXAR -----------------------------------------------------------------------