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- From: zundel@cc.gatech.edu (Eric Zundel Ayers)
- Subject: Re: How to get a 5 second 'burst' of real-time animation on a Mac
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.220832.24202@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Reply-To: zundel@cc.gatech.edu (Eric Zundel Ayers)
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- References: <1993Jan18.184147.10292@njitgw.njit.edu> <1993Jan24.202451.5700@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:08:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.202451.5700@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman) writes ...
- >>I was wondering if it's possible to get a 640x480 (or smaller for
- >>overscan) image to play ...
- >Not possible.
- >
- >Let's look at some math. But first, note that NTSC is only 640x200
- >interlaced. The extra vertical resolution can't be used.
- >
- >Math: 640 * 200 * 3 (bytes) is 384000 bytes. Times 30 (frames per
- >second) is 11520000 (say 11MB). Thus, you're asking if a 16MHz 68030
- >can transfer 11MB per second from memory across NuBus to a video board
- >in one second. If it's 640x480, then the number is 27MB.
- >
- >I don't think so. Sorry.
-
- This is simple math, a little bit too simple. Remember, most animation
- repeats many parts of a scene, so you might not have to transfer all
- of that from memory to the screen, only parts. This is how the .FLI
- format works... You start from a keyframe and then iteratively
- modify it as time goes by...
-
- So, I imagine it *might* be possible on a machine that had slower
- transfer times (A device hooked up to SCSI-2 is 10MB/sec, so it must
- be possible) But then, you have to consider that there is some computation
- time involved, etc... I have seen some real-time animations on an SGI,
- but they were in small windown (about 300x200 or so) and a Mac is no SGI!
-
- Eric.
-
- Eric Z. Ayers
- zundel@cc.gatech.edu
- Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center (GVU)
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30213 USA
-