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From: spietrow@atlas.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
Message-ID: <236@atlas.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 08:23:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: atlas.236
Posted: Wed Apr 29 08:23:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 02:18:32 EDT
References: <2058@hoptoad.uucp>
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in article <2058@hoptoad.uucp>, farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren) says:
> Xref: gould comp.sys.amiga:1684 comp.graphics:232
> 
> 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...

Even better, when that terrain was rendered, someone forgot to make sure
everything on the planet was set up correctly.  The first time they ran the
whole demo all the way through the viewer flew THROUGH a mountain!  

Next time you watch the Genesis Demo, there is a part that the viewer is
flown through a very narrow passageway, and then back over a wide open
landscape.  That's the place where the people who did the Demo patched
it up.

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