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From: kcampbel@uafhp.uark.edu (Keith Alan Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Radiosity LONG (was Re: Graphics in Hardware)
Summary: Vision Quest Systems...
Keywords: radiosity, realistic animations, ray-tracing
Message-ID: <6427@uafhp.uark.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 00:03:28 GMT
References: <2110@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Vision Quest Systems is a loose, small conglomerate of individuals who sometimes
get together and do some productive product development. Currently there are 
four of us active, of whom 2 are almost impossible to contact since they have
full time engineering jobs and every day is skiing day at the lake. Jim May is
company president, and his specialty is video applications. His goal is to 
conglomerate third party hardware and software into a professional Amiga based
video oriented multimedia workstation. He has been the force behind the 
Vision Quest dual TBC, which is currently in limbo. He is available almost any
time at the (501) 253-5264 number. I am the Audio person, having developed the
specs and format of the SunRize AD1016. I am also speculating about the   
development of an Amiga oriented professional digital audio business, a kind of
clearinghouse for Amiga based audio workstation hardware, software, and 
development information. It will (if I go with it) be called Concept Digital
Audio. I am available at (501) 521-0420 evenings and weekends, or messages can
be left mornings. Our two engineers choose to remain nameless because of 
restrictive policies at their workplace, but they are equally adept at writing
Amiga "c" code, 56001 assembly code, designing production 4 layer PC boards,
writing and debugging Transputer code (and designing Transputer based video/
character recognition applications in hardware), and have designed the hardware
and much of the low level code for the Amiga/AD1016 interface. They generally 
choose to be contacted through me, at least in the beginning. We all sometimes 
brainstorm about specific applications, but only spend blocks of time on 
projects that have a promise of some kind of financial return. Currently we
are finishing up the AD1016. Later we may have some time for third party 
development. JPEG may be a realistic goal, since the engineers are working with
the C-Cubed chip at work now. (They find it VERY hard to work with, from an
interfacing standpoint). We are also tinkering with 56001 code to replace math 
code for PD ray-tracers to see if the 56001 can be used as a co-processor/
accelerator.
   
   Don Kennedy
   Vision Quest Systems