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IBM Animation?

    05-Dec-92 11:03:20
Sb: #24049-IBM Animation?
Fm: Jim S. Roof 75460,2014
To: Joe Flanagan 76520,652
I've got a 2000 with a 33mhz '040. It does about 23mips and just under 4 mflops. Even with Lightwave 2.0 (which is not '040 specific) I render average 1504×960 frames (no raytracing and very little use of fractal maps) in 7 or 8 minutes. If I completely fill the screen with phong shaded objects of average polygonal density I render in about 15 minutes. Lightwave 3.0 will be faster from what I hear. This increase in speed will probably be due to two main reasons, '040 code and enhanced rendering engine that allows for controllable antialiasing in all resolutions. I want to know how fast is 3DS? Just curious. Jim Roof