Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!xylogics!bu.edu!mirror!rayssd!anomaly!cole From: cole@anomaly.sbs.com (Cole Calistra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Transputer Graphics Board Summary: Digital Animation Productions is the Co. Keywords: whiz bang Message-ID: <2047@anomaly.sbs.com> Date: 11 Jul 90 17:58:45 GMT References: <33682@ut-emx.UUCP> Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI 02917 Lines: 30 In article sam@ms.uky.edu (Mike Mills) writes: >greg@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: > >[stuff deleted] >>Anyway, this sounds like really exciting stuff! I don't consider the price >>too steep considering the alternatives, and this is at least at the level of >>anything PIXAR has produced. (And if you haven't been impressed by a PIXAR >>production, then you plain can't be impressed!) > >I saw one of these at AmiExpo Chicago last year...it was very FAST. I may be >wrong, but it looked like the demo they were showing was ray-tracing and >rotating an object in real time. Yes, I also saw that demonstration. It was put on by a company called Digital Animation Productions. They are located somewheres in Massechusetts. The president of the company (or at least the head guy at the show) was Daniel Ten Ton. (Catchy name 8-). I believe they have since been to other AmiExpo's such as the Washington, DC. one. If I'm correct they had more than just a transputer, they had a 2000 in a tower, and a few video cards that could get up to 8000x8000 some odd pixels with 16.2 million colors at once. It required TWENTY (20) megs of ram on the card though (got the spec sheet in front of me). -cole@anomaly.sbs.coma -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Cole C. Calistra | | UUCP: uunet!rayssd!anomaly!cole | | INTERNET: cole@anomaly.sbs.com | | Applied Vision Software - The Art of Amiga Development | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=