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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 12:41:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 12:41:43 1987
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In article <629@puff.WISC.EDU> upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus) writes:
>
> The other statement I found particularly objectionable was his statement that
> "we now have the ray tracing time down to an hour. Considering professional
> systems running on Crays...take 2or 3 minutes, our Amiga isn't doing
> badly"...
> ...Using my pocket calculator,
> and figuring the 24fps of standard film, I get a 14400 hours of
> continous calculation for a ten minute film, or about 2 YEARS of continous
> calculation!!!!
>
Lessee - a Cray costs (how the heck do _I_know what a Cray costs?) say 2
megabucks. So I could buy (2e6/2e3)=1e3=1000 Amigas (does $2000 for an Amiga
sound reasonable - especially if I'm buying a thousand of 'em?) So then the
14400 hours becomes 14.4 hours. Not bad, maybe?

keith (keep it in perspective) ericson

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