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From: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: ShowScan
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Date: 31 Jan 89 18:49:35 GMT
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Nagle recently talks about high resolution ShowScan requiring terrabaud
tranmission speeds and GIPs of computing.  Perhaps not.  At some point we
reach the perceptual bandwidth of the human visual system and don't have to
compute everything.  Just compute more wisely.  There are tradeoffs in
spatial, color, and temporal resolution.  Flight simulator people take
advantage of these and compute very realistic motion pictures these days.