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- From: wmbfmk@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation
- Subject: Re: Amiga Power (Was RE: Babylon 5)
- Message-ID: <wmbfmk.728184868@rw8.urc.tue.nl>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:34:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.142655.15030@city.cs> <1993Jan24.133854.21680@netcom.com>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
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- mnemonic@netcom.com (Rev Lebaredian) writes:
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- > If you are interested in using the Amiga for 3D animation, take a look
- >at DMIs Vivid 24 board. Fully populated(four TI34020s), DMI claims it
- >can render 100,000 gourard shaded polygons per second and give you
- >160 mflops of raw power. This is compared to 70 mflops on a $200,000
- >SGI. A fully populated Vivid with a amiga 3000 and an 040 board(for some
- >mips) comes in at about $12,000. Not to mention that it also gives
- >2048x2048x24(1280x1024x24 non-interlaced).
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- Has anyone realy seen these boards? They sell MPEG-boards too. Never seen
- those either.
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- Please stop spreading those "I've heard about a Zilion Phong Shaded
- Z-Buffered Polygones per second for just $9.95" - rumours.
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- Give me facts.
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- Marc.
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