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From: Derek Hardison <derekjh@pd.org>
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RE : rendermorphics and reality lab 3D rendering for games
Last night I attended a meeting of the local SGI users group where Neil
Trevett of 3D labs presented REAL TIME 3D 24-bit games with a pentium 90;
PCI buss & a card that holds their chip the GLINT chip.
Basically it turns the pentium into a SGI for garoud & phong with
mapping using the openGL libraries that SGI uses for Softimage,Wavefront etc.
The demo was very exciting - and the 3D cards for openGL will sell for
less than $500.
Now to Reality labs -- Neil said that creative labs - the soundblaster
people are going to use their chip on a 200 dollar card that gives real
time rendering in 16 bit with mapping. Jeez! can you imagine the games?
With 3D rendering on a chip, windowsNT or windows 95 -- any app that
uses OpenGL libraries will SCREAM. ( this does not include refraction or
true reflections -- those are cpu based.)
Hope I quoted Neil correctly. BTW, I am an Amiga user since '85 and
have yet to cross into PC land -- but have to soon for Painter 3 (
awesome paint package) and hardware like the Glint. Softimage fell from
$70,000 to $15,000 and will run on NT & W95. Lightwave is considering
OpenGL. 3D studio (Hoops) can also be accelerated by 3D labs.
Looks like SGI bought Wavefront & Alias in self defense.......
It' gonna be GOOD year! (;^)
--
Derek Hardison Imagine on Amiga 4000s
New Intelligence on Video
Seeking Contracts or Job using Alias or SoftImage
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