CompuServe Messages

Dave, If, and it's a big 'if,' my dual-Alpha estimations are fairly close guesswork, and if (assuming enough RAM) there's a direct, 1-to-1 correlation between resolution and rendering time (i.e. a 640×480 takes _exactly_ 4 times as long to render as a 320×240), then, extrapolated from posted times for P133s at 640, that hypothetical dual 300MHz Alpha running a fantasied Max for Alpha NT should clock 62 sec on Chevy at 1280 with mapping on, Pixel Size 1.1. ('course it'll also run .flc's at about 900 fps, but that's another story…<g>) The point is that even if my estimate is 50% optimistic (And I'd be real surprised if it's that far off…), we're already getting under 100 sec on hardware that's probably less than 6 months off. Therefore, IMHO, I think we ought to use a higher Pixel Size than 1.1 now, to give us a fighting chance of having usable numbers a year from now. Comments, from any and all? SCL