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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New toaster
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.205400.1680@bushido.uucp>
Date: 11 Sep 90 20:54:00 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.033542.1886@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <54331@masscomp.ccur.com>
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In article <54331@masscomp.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>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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It was my understanding that the toaster actually didn't use PIXEL ratings
for it's resolution. I thought it worked just with "scanlines", or at least
that's what one of the newtek employees was saying at AmiExpo this summer.

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