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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Frame Buffers
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Date: 23 Feb 90 20:36:02 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from R38@psuvm.psu.edu

 
I have experience on the Mimetics FrameBuffer w/FrameCapture...it's output is
pretty good, though it doesn't have RGB out, only a couple of BNC connectors. 
It's got 764 x 484 resolution (depending on your application), and there are
drivers to allow Sculpt/Animate 4D to render to it.  It gives you 2.1M colors
onscreen out of a 16.7M color pallette.  I've tested out Sculpt and Turbo
Silver files on it, and apart from some aspect ratio tweaking that needed to
be done, they looked excellent.
 
There's some new rendering package that's supposed to offer ray-tracing
realism, but is supposed to be alot faster.  It's called RENDITION.  It's not
available to the public yet, but it sounds nice.  Another one to look into is
PageRender 3D...
 
hope this helped alittle...
 
Sean