CompuServe Messages

Finally, SIGGRAPH news

    01-Sep-94 23:11:20
Fm: adam godfrey 73544,3103
To: john bennett 76557,520
Hi John: you wrote: >Can you tell us what kind of speed increases to expect rendering on say >P90 or MIPS machines? I'm sure with this kind of speed R3dv2 would become >easier to use. >I just wish it could load LW objects or the likes. :^) We are conducting some speed comparison tests now but roughly it looks like the Pentium is 3x plus faster than A4000 and MIPS is 2-3 x faster than that. ROUGH. I also heard that the Raptor Plus may be able to render Real files. LW and other poly based objects will be easily importable in the next release… Adam Godfrey RSI