Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!luth!eru.mt.luth.se!sow From: sow@eru.mt.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Hardware for animation?? Message-ID: <1203@luth.luth.se> Date: 3 Sep 88 14:41:49 GMT Sender: news@sm.luth.se Reply-To: Sven-Ove Westberg Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 34 UUCP-Path: {uunet,mcvax}!enea!cad.luth.se!sow We are going to build a CIM(Computer Integrated Manufacturing) laboratory at the University. In this lab we need some powerful graphics to do simulation and animations on. The main use will be presentation of different calulation results. The models used is very large > 10000 nodes some model may have 100 000 nodes in a finte element program and a lot of time steps. * interpolate the geometry between the time steps * interpolate at least 1 more parameter for each node (eg stress, temp..) * shade with or without color fringes * allow the user to manipulate the viewing parameters * 24 bit framebuffer. * Software selectable video output (eg. Highres/PAL/NTSC ) PAL is a requirment. * All this in "real time" or as fast as possible * Good NFS support. * If it is addon hardware it is a great advantage if it can be added to a Sun. What about this vendors: Pixar, PixarII, Rastertec, Sun TACC has anyone used it yet? Silicon Graphics, Other vendors?? I would very much appreciate answers from vendors as well as users. Some sort of price indication would also be good. Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden. Tel: +46-920-91677 (work) +46-920-48390 (home) UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!enea!cad.luth.se!sow ARPA: sow%cad.luth.se@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (only dumb ARPA mailers) Internet: sow@cad.luth.se Bitnet: sow%cad.luth.se@sekth