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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Subject: JMan question ( was Re: JMan Review: RENDER & Conclusion
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1991 02:06:21 GMT

In article <1991May24.005621.3479@techbook.com> waynekn@techbook.com (Wayne Knapp) writes:
>So many people are hung up on ray-tracing.  But the render is only 1/7 of 
>our Animation:Journeyman.  (And it is really improved in the new 1.3 version.)

I like a lot of the JMan stuff, but I was wondering how "open" the
scene description langage is.

You see, I've got this iPSC/860 parallel computer down the hall just
waiting to dump a few hundred frames a minute. I'd love to write
a ray tracing engine that'll read the scene description language.  :-)


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