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- DSD MMEDIA (dsdmmedia@aol.com) wrote:
- : It's nice to get some good intelligent replies to my message.
-
- : As you can see, by reading my very first post at the bottom of the page it
- : says that I could care less about what tools artists are using. I am
- : pro-multi platform.
-
- Two wrongs don't make a right my friend. Just because you say "I am
- pro-multiplatform" doesn't mean you don't anger Amiga users by saying
- things which are inflammatory to them, which you did.
-
- You implied that the unique hardware that Foundation Imaging has at its
- disposal these days in some way means that those with only a single Amiga
- can not produce B5-level visuals, hence, for Amigans to boast of B5 is
- bullshit because the RISC boxes and the huge network is responsible for
- the output. This is patently false. You should realize that the original
- effects for the B5 pilot started off on a network of 2 Amiga 2000s,
- nothing more, and the fact that they could produce such nice initial
- animation on those 2 modest machines was a huge reason why the producers
- went with the Toaster instead of SGI. So extolling the virtues of brute
- force isn't always a good thing especially when you are trying to coax
- yourself into a low budget show. (and I still feel weird calling B5 low
- budget).
-
- If you would like me to prove this thesis I'll work on rendering something
- similar. It might take me 6 months to model everything and painstakingly
- render it on my single machine, but it's not like it can't be done. If
- you want to render-race an A4000 side by side with an SGI the SGI will win
- but no Amigoid is trying to prove otherwise. That's not the point, but
- if all you think is worth boasting about is rendering time, you might not
- respect the real point here.
-
- I think Amigans get off on how cheaply something can be done compared to
- SGI's (YES YES sacrificing rendering time), and given the state of C=, I
- think the best thing you can do is let Amigans have their fun and not
- throw salt in their wounds.
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