Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac/Toaster Message-ID: <13363@uwm.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 15:42:09 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 39 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by billc@cryo.rain.com (William J. Coldwell): > > Bzzzt. Wrong. Take a look at Pro-3D, Swivel 3D, and others besides Mac > Renderman. The Mac has way cooler renderers than the Amiga ('cept for > 3dpro, but I'm biased ;-) ;-). Todd can do a lot better than LW3D, he > will just have to dump a lot of $$$ for it (and give up that Pulsar NX > that he's always been wanting ;-). You've underestimated me. I own bot h Pro-3d and Swivel-3d. I owned my mac before my Amiga, like a fool. :) Let it be known that Imagine beats the pants off of Pro-3d, and that Swivel-3d, while the 2nd nicest program the Mac has for raytracing, is whipped solid by Animation: Journeyman. Imagine is directly comparable to Pro-3d, and has better output, and more features. However, Animation: Journeyman is at least a generation beyond Swivel-3d, which is nice, but lacks in many features that Journeyman has evolved beyond. Rendering is not as good on Swivel-3d as it is on Journeyman, also. The 3d market on the Amiga has gone a long way past what is available on the Macintosh: I do not refer to Amiga screens being used, but 24bit IFF files produced and shown on a FireCracker 24, compared to a similar 24bit display on a IIcx. I did the best I could to make use of the common features, and even used some of the not-so-common ones on the Mac. Better yet, while I was raytracing, I was going through my FidoNet mail on the Amiga, and lost none of my productivity time. :) Greg Let it also be known that both amiga programs had better interfaces and screen updates, as well as image portrayal, than their Mac counterparts shown above. And though I would love to have a Mac RenderMan, I doubt I shall ever be able to see throwing that much money away when similar devices are on their way for the Amiga... -- Socrates: "I drank WHAT????" LMFAP: "Next time you see me, it won't be me." Wubba: "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream") -Wubba