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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 20:15:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 26 20:15:48 1987
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In article <2948@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	If it makes you feel any better, I understand that the Genesis Demo
>from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Mr. Rork was computed on a VAX-11/7?0 with
>rather respectable speed.

Well, yes, probably, but Tom Duff told me that the resolution of that piece
of work was only 512 X 512.  Really.  You can see the pixels on the edge of
the mountains if you try, it's not even hard...

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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"