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From: cs87fmc@cc.brunel.ac.uk (F M Cargill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Graphics in Hardware (was Re: So, does *anyone* make 1024x768 x256...)
Keywords: radiosity, 34020, DMI
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Date: 8 May 91 21:00:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.043853.20723@coplex.uucp> <15230@helios.TAMU.EDU> <8787@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: cs87fmc@cc.brunel.ac.uk (F M Cargill)
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In article <8787@crash.cts.com> jcs@crash.cts.com (John Schultz) writes:
>...The 34020
>board (still in design phase) will sport a 34082, spec'd out at 40 MFLOPS. It's
>got built in matrix operations as well. Serious real-time simulation will be
>possible with this board.
Will it let you use the 40MFLOPS to do 3D projections?  Hardware Z-buffering
would be even better - it would let us render scenes using the Radiosity
model rather than using Ray-Tracing; for animations the former has the
advantage that you only calculate the scene once (to work out light
reflections) and you can produce an image of the scene in a matter of seconds,
from whatever viewpoint you like - Real Time Virtual Reality!

Fletch.
cs87fmc@cc.brunel.ac.uk