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Lenzfx

    30-Dec-94 13:32:13
Sb: #144206-Lenzfx
Fm: Aaron W. Ostler 74672,127
To: David R. Swoboda 74354,331
<<Surprisingly, on the Alpha, ray tracing was FASTER than non-ray tracing on the same machine! In fact a scene on a stock 040/28 took 4944secs and on the Alpha took only 353secs. That's a factor of 14x faster.>> Add to that a real-time polygon shader and SGI had better come up with something real good, real fast or they're looking at a pretty bleak future. There are already a couple dozen of these cards in the works for NT machines! Aaron