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- I've been reading about accelerated rendering and I
- am either missing something or I am starting to scare myself.
- In the last issue of digital video there was an article about
- real time rendering. Among the boards and chips discussed
- was the Glint chip. Its supposed to render 300,000 polygons
- per second (shaded), along with supporting antialiasing. There
- are other chips and marietta is promissing one next year that
- renders 750,000 per second. Media Labs makes a board for the
- PC with Glint for $1400. If it really renders that fast,
- frames that take minutes in our t4000 would take a fraction of
- a second. The big thing is that these boards only support
- certain API's, all of them supoort opengl, but I'm not sure
- what API lightwave uses. I've been calling the board
- manufacturers about info a lot, getting a return call from
- newtek tech support tommorow morning. The next big thing
- is getting the rendered frames into a par or something. If
- someone has tried this before let me down now before I go
- too balistic about this. Thanks,
- Mark Turney
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