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#3D CHALLENGE!

    14-Jun-93 13:45:59
Sb: #58716-#3D CHALLENGE!
Fm: James Roath 76440,2336
To: Suresh Kavan 76004,311
Ok, I'm in, but I'll raise the anty… One of the SGI dead heads around here has offered to render the scene on his workstation, during lunch. I have seen how it renders and it would be interesting to see how it works out. Some of the scenes they have reproduced from 3d studio files have render in 1/60th the time. In addition, I can setup a 486 50 mhz with 3d studio, and a 33mhz 040 Amiga. Of course there will be some advantages to each of the platforms that should be taken into account. The 486 50 has only got 32 megs of ram, the 040 Amiga has 72 megs of ram, and the SGI has some ungodly amount of ram in it… Also, how will we handicap the 3d studio images in regards to ray tracing ? Oooppssss…. I can't use lightwave in this test but can use Imagine 2.0 ….