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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 17:04:20 EDT
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> 	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.

I think Bill Reeves said it was a 750.  But "respectable" is in the eye of
the beholder; the sequence took weeks to compute.  The flying-through-the-
canyon bit wasn't originally planned.  It was kludged in when they found
that the fractal mountains were intersecting the flight path, since they
didn't have enough time before the deadline to recompute the whole thing.
-- 
"If you want PL/I, you know       Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
where to find it." -- DMR         {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry