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- From: andyrose@netcom.com (San Francisco Fractal Factory)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: AVS on PC - viz for everyone!
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 18:46:14 GMT
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- Just talked to Charles G. and he OKed this post.
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- #Cc: chuckg@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us (Charles Gallagher)
- >
- >
- > Does AVS run on 486 machine yet?
- >
-
- I also sell for a company out of Boulder, called Set Technology, that supplies
- a 486 box, 32 MB of ram, 500 MB hard disk, both floppies, 1/4" 150 MB tape,
- ethernet, graphics board (1024x768), Sony 17" monitor, SCO UNIX, X11, NFS,
- and AVS for $9,995.
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- >This is a 50Mhz 486, AVS4.0 with advanced memory sharing,
- heirarchical module creation (modules within modules) and executable building
-
- This is a completely integrated, tested, ready to use system.
- Set is a source code licensee of the AVS software and has the only 486 port.
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- Under terms of their agreement with Advanced Visual Systems, Inc., they are
- precluded from selling only the AVS software seperately.
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- The price for AVS, qty 1, to commercial users on typical WS's (SUN, HP, SGI,
- IBM6000) is $6500.
-
- Please contact me if you require more info re AVS.
-
- Regards,
-
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- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ~ Chuck Gallagher chuckg@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us (408) 464-2180 ~
- ~ Visualization Systems 3835 Moana Way Santa Cruz, CA 95062 ~
- ~ ~
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- Chuck's coming over in a week so I can tell you how screaming fast this
- configuration is. I asked him over the phone to load the read field, iso-
- surface, color map, and render modules and rotate that little hydrogen
- thing around. Apparently AVS uses a 'bounding box' to give interactivity
- to the 'virtual spaceball'. So the cubeythingy moves in real time and
- when you let the button go, the new image is rendered. A couple seconds.
-
- Upshot? p5 upgrade will require a motherboard swap (although most
- chips and controllers can be reused) and should come 'in a year'.
-
- Competition? Iris Indigo is reasonable but only for 8bit graphics.
- 24 bit will cost you $25,000+ (correct me if I'm wrong).
-
- Output? laser disk is best for reasons of random access, single frame
- viewing, cost, archiving, reliability, space, and ease of use.
-
- I suppose there should be some duplication in the function of all the
- IBM Explorer, IRIS Explorer, and AVS modules. Count on AVS for having
- more because it's been around longer. Khoros is 'being ported to AVS'
- whatever that means.
-
- Have you heard of GRASS(?) This thing showed up which was built by
- the Army and can draw graphs. Looks fairly extensive and has
- a user community of GIS folks. Anybody use this?
-
- later
-
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- Andrew Rose andyrose@netcom.com FAX 4155537756 When peace rules the planet
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