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##9256-Animation Marketin

    20-Feb-92 10:28:27
Fm: Yost Group 76702,413
To: Roger Danielsen 70323,3034
No problem with your not being able to make NCGA, Roger. I'll be extremely open about r2's features, etc. after the 9th. Sorry, but I can't comment on anything about it till then (but Autodesk has a policy of not announcing anything unless then can ship it very soon thereafter). Regarding my comment re rendering speed…. Since Lightwave creates shadows by ray-tracing ONLY, it can take 3 HOURS to render a frame on the fastest Amiga 68030 out there, compared to 10 MINUTES to render the same kind of image in 3DSr2 on a 486/33. And our image will generally look better because of our new shadows. That's 18x faster. The issue goes farther than just shadows, but I really don't want to talk about it till after the 9th. Please bear with me. You're about to get your wildest 3D animation fantasies realized.