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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 13:26:20 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
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- >That would be quite a feature --- having 1024 lines at 30us each
- >(approximately), and that in just 14ms time..... And yes, once we can
- >display a 1280*1024 screen at 80Hz (we want to make sure even sensitive
- >people won't get headaches, right), we go for 24 bit colour. We then
- >go for larger virtual screens. We then might go for hardware zooming
- >(I think that could be the next big thing --- zooming in and out of you
- >desktop), hardware accellerated 3d with decent texture mapping and
- >32 bit resolution for the Z-buffer, real time video playback with smoothing
- >of lower resolution strips (also very useful for the zooming), and so
- >on and so on and so on. I have been in this field for far too long to
- >believe any "we have reached a limit" predictions anymore. Well, maybe
- >for sound, but definitely not for video.
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- These "special FX" you listed dont need more bandwidth, the AgaEXTENDER design
- performs them.
-
- >And once we actually have all that on a card, the LCD technology will;
- >be available at a very decent price,
-
- You want a computer in 2010 or in 1996?
-
- > and we can suddenly have screens
- >that are ten times as big as the ones we are using now,
-
- Too bad that, unless you go into cyberneurology, your eyes will not increase
- their resolution. :D *evil grin* ;)
-
- > while maybe giving
- >300 dpi for the display --- which would mean we have to get the resolution
- >up to 12800*10240 (or, most likely, something in the 16:9 format).
-
- hohoho =)
-
- Why not "atom resolution"?
- So you can use your Electronic Microscope on the display of your LCD portable.
-
- hihihi :D
-
- > Which
- >means the thing becomes a home cinema
-
- sure!! :^)
- at the Neuro. :D
-
- > --- which means that the card has
- >to handle extremely compressed video-on-demand, introducing a whole new
- >set of functionality...
-
- Yes, see you next morning, when you go out from this nightmare.
-
- >Bernie
-
- Eaten bad last night? ;)
-
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