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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Alias Animator -- What is it?
Message-ID: <1040@celia.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 91 17:07:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.061614.16026@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood
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In article <1991Jun3.061614.16026@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:

>It comes with alot of the new workstations, including the Personal Iris,
>DECStations, and IBM's RISC System 6000s (I think).  And since most of
>these only have 8bits of color as standard for their entry level color
>systew3ms, the A2410 should be adequate (sp).
>Sean

I am not trying to rain on anyones parade. But what I was trying to say is for
the animation and modeling parts of Wavefront's software to work you need the
geometry engines in the SGI, including the Personal Iris. I don't know about
IBM or DEC stations. It has nothing to do with 8 bits, 24 bits, etc. Unless
the A2410 has these engines, they will make a poor performance of Wavefront's
sotware. However, the renderer will work without the A2410. I could be made to
work fairly easily in an A3000UX.

neil


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