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#Suggestions for 3-D?

    15-Feb-92 21:08:32
Fm: Glenn Zimmerman 76247,3660
To: Louis Markoya 75766,504
I wasn't sure about the 32-bit chips. I'll keep that in mind. Also, I know the Wavefront system that I use at work isn't really a true ray-trace renderer. They use quite a few tricks & shortcus to get the same results, thus saving rendering time. Still, a frame can take on an average of 5 minutes to an hour to render on a DECStation 5000 (which is a fairly speedy computer). What am I looking at in render time on an accellerated Amiga? And is Imagine a ray-trace system or can it render in different formats? Thanks. -Glenn-