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From: baer@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Big ray tracings
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.174735.9024@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 17:47:35 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.133033.4977@cs.wayne.edu>
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In article <1991Apr1.133033.4977@cs.wayne.edu>
jal@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes: 
> >Hi, I 've been using
Turbo Silver and various other popular ray tracers 
|for some time now and was wondering is there a ray tracer available 
|for the Amiga that will allow you tocreate images of any resolution
|(stored on disk and not necessarily visible on the screen all at once)?  
| >Can any of the packages like Imagine, Journeyman or Caligari do this? 
| >Thanks.  >
|Jason Leigh >jal@cs.wayne.edu >-- >:^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^)

Journeyman can.  The only limit to resolution is memory, and the time you
are willing to wait for a render.  We are doing our film in 704 x 480 and
24 bit.  If you are rendering for 35mm film, you'd render between 
2000 and 3000 lines.  Also remember that you can get away with lower
resolution if you have good anti-aliasing and lots of 
motion.  You don't need as much detail 
in animation as you do with stills. They're different animals.
-- 
    //    -Ken Baer.  Programmer/Animator, Hash Enterprises / Earthling
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