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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
Message-ID: <1608@zeus.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 17:05:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 17:05:06 1987
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Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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In article <2058@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>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...

Yes, but that was a desired effect.  They did versions of it at higher
resolution from what I understand, but the requirements of the movie were
for a grainy, "computer generated" feel so they shot it at low resolution
off a Barco monitor.
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK