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- From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Realistic 3D Studio usage
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.041212.14232@exucom.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:12:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.232907.25757@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
- Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
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- R5321GAB@vm.univie.ac.at wrote:
- : I think that the software for SGI is out of the price range for most
- : people interested in setting up home studios. I work with Softimage
- : and Wavefront, both go for about $50,000. This is more than the system
- : price. Softimage is an incredible program but a tad expensive. How
- : about an Amiga 4000? I have heard that they have finally fixed that
- : damn monitor flicker at 24 bits. Imagine is also supposed to be fairly
- : nice. I have friends making broadcast (ie. Universe TV show) quality
- : animations with it.
- :
- Really you could optimize the general purpose raytracers like
- POV (PD notice) and they could give the comercial software a run for
- it's money. Perhaps some nice professional studio editing tools for
- POV would help as well. IE play with a wire frame and phonge or
- Torace Sparow shadeing and then rendering the image. I suspect with
- provideing a decent front end to programs such as POV things could be
- much cheaper with the SGI.
-
- Cyberman
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