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- Agust Fridriksson wrote:
- >>I need to know the what is the fastest GUI/Render accel card out there,
- >>The top price I am looking for is 50.000$. I know this may sound abit absurd
- >>but I#180#m looking for this to accel both rendering and to get realtime VRML
- >>stuff in hires. <snip>
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- I believe the board you're looking from Evans and Sutherland, yes the one and
- the same company that produces proprietary Image Generators for simulation. I
- believe the board is called the FREEDOM Board. Real-Time performance
- approaching SGI speed of just a few years ago. Nothing like the 800 Million
- Textured Pixels ( texels ) per second of the latest ONYX series though. Goto
- http://www.es.com/ for more info.
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- The following is a glimpse
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- FEATURES:
- Real time rendering, Full speed antialiasing, Fast set-up calculations
- Depth cueing, Transparency, Texture mapping, Line-slope intensity
- corrections, Environment mapping, Fog, decals, Specular highlights
- Perspective acceleration of textures, Bi-linear and tri-linear
- MIP-mapping, Perspective acceleration of colors, 24-bit texture
- acceleration, 12-bit dither, Alpha blending, Scissoring,
- Perspective acceleration of colors, Window ID, Color modulation
- Real time animation
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- Technical Specifications
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- 3D Graphics Engine: Evans & Sutherland
- Display Memory: 4MByte of VRAM
- Z buffer Memory: 4MByte of DRAM
- Texture Memory (optional): 1, 4 or 16 MByte user installable SIMM
- 3D Resolutions: 1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480
- Display Colors: 8, 12, 24 bit color support
- Maximum Vertical Refresh Rates: 72Hz non-interlaced at all supported
- resolutions
- Software Support: Windows NT 3.5, OpenGL, DDI
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- System Requirements
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- Bus: PCI Full length slot
- CPU Support: Pentium
- Monitor: Video timing supports any monitor capable of displaying the
- listed resolutions in non-interlaced mode, 15 pin D-shell VGA
- connector
-
- dimitri holman
- visualization engineer
- science applications international corp
- dimitri.holman@cpmx.saic.com
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