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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga Video Toaster for the MAC
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Date: 29 Apr 91 09:16:25 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from bard@jessica.stanford.edu

 
LightWave 3D IS a true renderer (how do you fake this???).  It is not a
raytracer, which is only one method of rendering an image.
 
It does, however, raytrace its shadows...but only its shadows.  To add
realism to LightWave renderings you use mapping techniques, including:
image, bump, reflection, environment.
 
Also...there is no proposed $4000 Mac version.  There will be a standalone
box that you will be able to buy under the New Tek label, but it will be an
Amiga/Toaster bundle.  The Mac (or IBM clone for that matter) can send its
video to one of the Toaster's inputs (providing it's been converted to
NTSC), and can possibly send commands for effects, etc. through the RS232
port, or a possible LAN port and communicate through ARexx.
 
But there would be no difference between using an "Amiga" Amiga, and a
"New Tek Video Computer" Amiga.  They're both Amigas...the only difference
is in the name.  What is in a name...
 
And I quote from the May 1991 issue of Mac World magazine, page 107, bottom
left paragraph, 3rd sentence:
 
        Though the Video Toaster requires an Amiga 2000 or 2500, NewTek
        is promoting a Toaster-Amiga combination as a Macintosh peripheral
        that can be connected to a Mac with an RGB-to-NTSC encoder like
        RasterOps' Video Expander board...NewTek is adding the ability to
        read and write Macintosh bitmaps, some 3-D formats, and PostScript
        files so they can be animated or used as overlays.
 
What NewTek is proposing is what any Mac user can do right now.  All they
have to do is go down to an Amiga dealer, plunk down their cash for an
Amiga and Toaster, and there they are.  The software upgrade will just be
there to benefit Amiga users, though it will make life easier for Macfolk
who own an Amiga to have access to the Toaster.
 
You can either wait for NewTek's VAR box, or you can get you an Amiga right
now.  The end effect will be the same no matter which route you take.  No
matter what, you're going to have an Amiga.  No matter what, you'll need to
learn at least some of AmigaDOS.
 
You can either wait for NewTek...or get some work done NOW!
 
Sean
 
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