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From: marcc@yoyodyne.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Question (silly?)
Keywords: raytrace, etc.
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.200926.976@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 20:09:26 GMT
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In article <5427@idunno.Princeton.EDU> markv@taylor.Princeton.EDU (Mark VandeWettering) writes:
>In article <79641@unix.cis.pitt.edu> kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes:
>>	real-time (20-30 frames/sec), 800 X 600 (VGA), ray-traced,
>>	animation? 
>>	(Assume 6-12 objects, 256 colors, etc.)
>
>
>	Anybody have a 2 TeraFlop board for a PC they want to get rid of c
>	cheap?
>
>>	(Please don't just say, "cluster of 6 Cray Y-MPs" :-) 
>
>	Yeah, it will take alot more. ALOT more.

Well, I actually SAW a demonstration of real time raytracing.  Only spheres.  
Only a few objects.  Looked neat!

Of course, it was on a CM/2.  Somehow, trying to get a CM/2 on to a PC
board seems a little, well, unrealistic.
(Please consider the above as a nominee for Understatement of the Year)

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