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From: kovach@rtc.atk.com (Pete Kovach)
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Subject: Re: Real-time raytrace -- get serious!
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Chris Shaw writes -

>$500,000 !
>
>With that kind of money you can buy 1,000,000 gouraud shaded polygons 
>per second, without sweating the frame buffer sharing required by a parallel,
>real-time ray tracer. After all, the ideal machine for tracing rays is the 
>AT&T Pixel Machine, and that doesn't deliver real time ray tracing, either!

$500,000??????  Are you serious!. Geez, get a Silicon Graphics machine.
Save yourself a LOT of money and have a better machine by far!
-- 
Peter Kovach

Sig - We don't need no stinking sig!