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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Subject: Re: Animation in Engineering
References: <1991Apr11.130015.24076@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Apr11.185325.22834@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 01:39:36 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.185325.22834@milton.u.washington.edu> reeses@milton.u.washington.edu (Feltch Master) writes:
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>Well, the SGI and IBM workstations can grind through 1 million 3d vectors per 
>second, and display 24 bit color in 1280x1024 resolution...42MIPS and 13 MFLOPS...doing far more than any amiga, but of course, at an obscene price...SGI
>machines commonly run in the 175 G range...
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>reeses@milton.u.washington.edu   University of Washington, Seattle
>"Reality is a cop-out for people who can't handle drugs"

Looking at the add I doubt the software was using 24 bit color.  In fact I
guessed that it was in 16 colors (4 bit ?).  After all, it animated AutoCad
stuff or a least used AutoCad to create its files.

The add also boasted output to video so that I doubt that high reselution
was a major selling point.  As I said, the idea is that you could use this
software to get a feel of what a building/structure will actually be like
in use.  You could walk through it.  From my own experiences in construction,
I know that a major problem is that the owner will come out to the site and
will want changes after he walks though the damn thing.  These changes cost
thosands of dollars even in small buildings.


I know that expensive animation systems have been around.  But it seems like
Amiga could make anmation of buildings/stuctures affordable to the typical
design office.  Amiga might also use its powers of animation to get its
foot in the CAD door.

Is an 030 or 040 system fast enough to animate object oriented 3d graphics
in 16 or even 256 colors?


                                   NCW


