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From: d4umf@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Forsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Help with choosing system for animation sought!
Keywords: Animation
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Date: 9 Aug 90 18:26:40 GMT
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	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