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From: banzai@pixar.UUCP (Eric Herrmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Future of Amiga Video
Message-ID: <1117@pixar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 20:52:47 EST
Article-I.D.: pixar.1117
Posted: Wed Oct 28 20:52:47 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 04:49:17 EST
References: <4579@zen.berkeley.edu> <2987@xanth.UUCP> <1692@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: banzai@pixar.UUCP (Eric Herrmann)
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Keywords: 32?  Only 32?
Summary: Heh

In article <1692@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> dlleigh@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Darren L. Leigh) writes:
>Personally, my dream machine would be 32 bits/pixel.  That's 24 bits
>mapped directly to the guns for super-realistic pictures and eight
>bits worth of overlay attached to a 24 bit wide color table.
>
>Then all I want is a super-computer to do the calculations and a
>single-frame video recorder . . .   

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Of course, there's the Pixar, which has 12 bits per channel plus alpha, for
a grand total of 48 bits per pixel.  (Realistically, it can only display 10 
bits of the 12 of RGB, so you get 2^30 possible colors.)  A mere 40 MIPS per 
processor, max of 4 processors, so 160 MIPS total possible.  And you can 
change the output video format to NTSC, for your video transfers...  And so 
cheap, too, only $49,000!

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) 

> Darren Leigh			Have you hugged your id today?

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