How Do They Do It?

SYSTEMS
Columbia University School of Architecture's Digital Design Lab uses over 50 Indy® workstations, (R4000tm, R4400tm, and R4600tm based machines, with Indy 24-bit graphics hardware). Four of the Indy systems are also equipped with the Indy Videotm option for proof-quality video output. One has the Centaur board from Chyron Graphics, Inc., for higher quality non-linear video editing. Additional Silicon Graphics® equipment includes: three Indigo² (2 with Extremetm graphics, and one with XZ graphics) and one CHALLENGE S (NFStm server, with 54GB of disk storage)

SOFTWARE

• Alias Studio, Alias|Wavefront
• Modeling, animation, and rendering

  
  

• SOFTIMAGE, Microsoft-SOFTIMAGE
  Modeling, animation, and rendering

  
  

• Irixtm 5.3, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  Operating system, including the IndigoMagic desktop environment, the IRIX Digital Media Tools, and Open Inventor.

  
  

• Netscape Navigator, Netscape, Inc.
  Web browser

  
  

• Webspace, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  VRML browser

  
  

• K-AShare, from Xinet, Inc.
  Provides Silicon Graphics-Macintosh® connectivity

  
  

• A wide variety of locally developed and public domain software, including:
  XV, by John Bradley
  Image manipulation and conversion

  
  

• GIMP, by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis
  Image manipulation and conversion

  
  

• NetPBM tools, by various authors
  Image manipulation and conversion