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From: schwartz@swatsun (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 04:03:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 04:03:36 1987
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Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
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Summary: resolution of film is 512x512
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In article <7978@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > ... Tom Duff told me that the resolution of that piece [ST2 Genesis demo]
> > 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...
> 
> Note that Andre and Wally B. was shot at the same resolution.  And it
> looks better than most of the stuff people do on n-zillion-pixel film
> recorders.  "Work smart, not hard."

Absolutely.  One of the professors here at Swarthmore is making computer
animated movies for teaching geometry.  His group is writing frame buffers
directly to video tape.  They tell me that video tape cannot record more
than about 512x512 pixels (with 32 bit colors).  In that case, there's no point
in rendering 1K x 1X images.
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