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3d cards vs regular

    01-Sep-94 15:10:48
Fm: John Tissavary 71054,15
To: Anthony P Cheng 73172,170
From what I understand the plus is 1.5 times faster than the old Impression, it comes in PCI, and probably has better VGA support than the Impression. I have no idea if the MGA chipset could do anything with the 3DS renderer. I highly doubt it. The only software I know that does final renders using hardware is VisLab which runs on the SGI platform and uses the geometry engines to render stuff. I don't think it looks nearly as good as other renderers like 3DS and Renderman, though. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)