#Rendering speed
Peter, I recently saw notice that the Vivid 24 board is shipping; in
addition to being a 24-bit f/buf, it is more importantly a Rendering Engine!
Company (DMI) sez 20 times the rendering speed of a 4000!
A friend of mine mentioned it was able to work with both Lightwave and
Imagine (we're getting close to real-time rendering, if so!). Perhaps some of
the folks here could enlighten us– what is the board, and will it actually
turbocharge Imagine. BTW, I've heard rumored prices that are about the same as
'040 boards were 6 months ago– 2 g's or so, but this is entirely conjecture on
my part. Anyone know the real deal?