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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: New toaster
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Date: 11 Sep 90 12:27:57 GMT
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In article <1990Sep11.033542.1886@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>I read a posting a bit back concerning the Toaster.  Apparently
>somebody was rendering at a resolution of 1500x900 on it.  Is
>this true?  Is there going to be a different toaster for higher
>resolutions?

The current incarnation of LightWave 3D (the renderer for the Toaster)
renders to three resolutions. The normal resolution is that of the Toaster
which is 768x484. There is also a low-res output and what is termed an
antialias-res output. In antialias mode, the images are rendered to
roughly 1500x900 and then filtered down to Toaster resolution. There
is no current capability to render to resolutions greater than the Toaster's
768x484. When I last spoke to Allen Hastings and asked him why no higher
resolution output, he replied that it was strictly a video product therefore
the higher resolutions are unecessary. I hope this changes. Given sufficient
memory, I would like to take my video animations and output selected
hi-res stills for use with an image recorder (say around 2K x 2K).

Disclaimer: I ain't no NewTek employee!
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|  mark@westford.ccur.com                                                  |
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