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From: wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Another problem of high resolution and lots of colors
Message-ID: <04778.AA04778@sosaria.imp.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 19:03:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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Hear this: I rendered a complex SA4D scene with 1280 x 1024 pixel and 24
bit color. First of all it took my 2620-equipped machine 30 hours to render
one picture. Then the raw data used nearly 4 megs. Even after converting it
to a (naturally compressed) IFF file, it still took 2.3 megs. How does this
work on systems who use such high resolution with lots of colors? Is it
simply done with big, big storage devices or do they have better
compression algorithms that can shrink these incredible numbers? Imagine a
100 frame animation with such data!


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Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com
"Justice is the possession and doing 
of what one is entitled to" - Platon
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