#why 3ds
FWIW, My place of employ uses Infini-D on Mac Quadra 950's with 128
MB of RAM, 24-bit full-page monitors and massive disk storage (to the
tune of about $15,000 per workstation). It ray traces *very* slowly
(as all ray tracing is) and when the time came for me to buy a
computer to satisfy my _need_ to animate graphics, I bought a PC and
3DS and I am still glad I did that instead of the other. I also own
Playmation (not the new, wonderful, it'll-even-slice-bread version)
and have not opened that program for 4 months.