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From: hj412fr@duc220.uni-duisburg.de (Martin Anantharaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Need info on Intelligent Light products
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Date: 6 Dec 90 13:01:12 GMT
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Could someone report on his experience with the Intelligent Light, Inc.
products (3DV/ CADimator/Framestore-32/Paint/IVIEW/IVIEW Dore/VIDEOTOOLS)?

Apart from the general impression you may have got, I am particularly
interested in the following aspects:

1) How do the 3DV/IVIEW/Dore suite compare to the official Apollo
GMR3D/PHIGS products (with which we are not altogether happy) in
ease-of-use and performance,

2) How easy is it to go from some data-description (generated by hand
or extracted from a CAD package) to a ray-traced animation on VIDEO with
the various modules?

3) Does someone know of a European contact, or have a FAX address of
the company?

4) Are there other products (third-party or official) for this kind of
visualization application (available now or in the near future) that I
should be looking at?

Thanks in advance,

Martin Anantharaman

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