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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: <1993Jan25.234008.25065@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Reply-To: zundel@cc.gatech.edu (Eric Zundel Ayers)
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:40:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.220832.24202@cc.gatech.edu> zundel@cc.gatech.edu (Eric Zundel Ayers) writes:
- >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 window (about 300x200 or so) and a Mac is no SGI!
-
- Well, I have to take that back now, because I've seen the Reality
- engine rendering full screen interactively (the town simulation)
-
- Wow.
-
- Wow.
-
- Eric
- Eric Z. Ayers
- zundel@cc.gatech.edu
- Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center (GVU)
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30213 USA
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