Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!epicb!jerry From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Idea for a graphics board Keywords: 24 bit Message-ID: <1991Jun24.224632.1253@truevision.com> Date: 24 Jun 91 22:46:32 GMT References: <1991Jun16.023045.2501@cccan.uucp> <62147@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN Lines: 41 In article <62147@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes: >entity@cccan.uucp (Cybernetworx) writes: >>>nygardm@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Michael T. Nygard) writes: >>>i860 processor for anti-aliasing lines, fast 3d polygon renders, Phong >>>[] Anybody know of such a beast, or anything similar. >> >>Hmm, am I the only person to have heard of the Innosphere graphics board >>for the amiga? If I recall properly, sometime about a year ago, a fellow >>posted up a message describing just such a board that he had been designing. > >The project is defunct. The developer could not get the financial backing >to proceed with the product. I spoke with him a few weeks ago and he mentioned >that the whole thing had been handed off to the University of Lowell for >further tinkering with some involvement from Commodore. He didn't seem too >confident that anything would come of it soon. I find this most unfortunate >since an i860 based board is what I most need right now. The i860 is by far >the most bang for the buck out there and I am deeply disappointed that no >one has managed to bring one to the Amiga market, especially now with the low >cost 25MHz version ($175 quantity 1000). I design i860 based graphics systems >at my day job which pretty much prevents me from doing one for the Amiga, >but if anyone else is working on such a project, I would be more than happy >to quietly lend a hand on the development effort. >%~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~% >% ` ' Mark Thompson CONCURRENT COMPUTER % >% --==* RADIANT *==-- mark@westford.ccur.com Principal Graphics % >% ' Image ` ...!uunet!masscomp!mark Hardware Architect % >% Productions (508)392-2480 (603)424-1829 & General Nuisance % >% % > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We have an i860 based board for the AT bus called the Horizon860. We have a port of Pixar's Photo-Realistic Renderman for it. I have been trying to find Amiga software which outputs RIB files. This would allow renderings to be dumped to the Horizon860 for processing and then brought back to the Amiga for display or displayed onto a TARGA+ or ATVista board on the PC side. -Jerry -- Jerry Thompson | // checks ___________ | "I'm into S&M, I loved the peace and solitude | \\ // and | | | | Sarcasm and so much, I invited my friends. | \X/ balances /_\ | /_\ | Mass Sarcasm."