CompuServe Messages

Thats all right, I probably should have known better. But I hadn't even seen an SGI before the demo and got excited. My buddy about had an orgasm when I told him about the SGI. So you can see where we come from… the wrong side of the tracks. Plus there's all the hype about SGIs from the movie industry. Its like "Elvis is in the building…" I guess it showed me what is possible…maybe in the near future. If the Mips 10000 series processor is what Mips is saying its going to be then real time surfaces could possibly be done… and as final output. I think my trouble right now is knowing exactly what is acceptable as final output. I'm happy with the Phong and metal shading I'm getting from 3DS. But then I don't know better. I've got Truespace also but the 3DS stuff looks better. I would like to see some Renderman output just to know. In some ways I'm still at the elementary stage. Like I can't get my shiny gold objects exactly the way I want them to look. On the other hand the rotoscoping I've been doing with perspective matching has turned out better than expected. I wowed the office. BTW, I can get Sun Sparc stations for $2K. Model 20s I think. I'll find out Sunday. My cousin is a big Unix person. I think those would be a good render station on a network. She has the specs on all the Suns and will give then to me on Sunday. What do you think? If they are 133Mhz machines I don't think they are worth it. I can get 275Mhz Alphas for 5K. Thanks for the support.