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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Ray Tracings done at Apple
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Date: 24 May 88 14:42:50 GMT
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I was wondering if anybody knew how the Apple ray tracings were done. I know
that they used the Cray for most of the generations (some Mac II comparisons
were apparently done also), but I was wondering if it was all custom software,
and if there is any way that _any_ of the images or object files are available.

I do have some of the images, as many of those got out, but am looking more for
some of the object descriptions, as here at UCSC we have a roomful of little
used 386-based Xenix machines running U. Toronto's OPTIK program, that are
dying for me to diddle with them. I did do a few of my own descriptors, but
would like to see what parameters gave Apple the well known demo images.

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