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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Alias Animator -- What is it?
Message-ID: <1039@celia.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 91 13:39:55 GMT
References: <6043@mindlink.bc.ca>
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood
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In article <6043@mindlink.bc.ca> Gord_Wait@mindlink.bc.ca (Gord Wait) writes:

< deleted but essentially correct info on Alias>

>be lo-cost enough for the amiga. Another company in this same market is
>Wavefront (in Santa Barbera Calif.) Perhaps with A3000 Unix machines these guys
>will port to an amiga...

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Alias or Wavefront to release anything on
the Amiga:-) Just because there is a Unix version of the Amiga does not mean
that these software companies software can port to any Unix system. I mean, yes,
the code is Unix and it will work, sort of, but these companies depend on the
geometry engines in the SGI machines to make their modeling and choreography
packages work. These geometry are capable of very high throughput for graphics
primitives like 3-D transformations, line drawing, etc. Not even the Sun can
do this. However, I know these programs have a mode where they can run without
the graphics on many Unix systems and the rendering packages do not need the
graphics engines in the SGI, but I still wouldn't hold my breath:-)


neil


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