| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
What is the use of upgrading your amy with a 68030 and a mathcop, when the obvious solution would be to use the number crunching power you've got in your VAX during the night for building animations and other heavy time consuming calulations? What I'm wondering is this: Are there any nice raytracers with an calc executable for the VAX systems? The dream would be if you could use the AMIGA as an editor for your picture/animation and then upload your s cript to the VAX, raytrace, and if it was an animation pack frames, download animation to AMIGA and ShowAnim or whatever. Is this possible, or have I missed something? /Jojo
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| 4055.1 | often not possible | SALEM::LEIMBERGER | Tue Aug 28 1990 05:01 | 18 | |
Ideally this might be nice. However in the real world it may not be
permissable for everyone to do so. There are many instances where the
Vax are used to run data intensive jobs during the off hours. This
aside you have the problem of systems going off line. I have seen
people twisting their hands in anguish because their term paper was
on a vax that was not available. Another thought is that the 68030
is good for more than raytracing. I have seen animations that run
jumpy on a 2000,but smooth on the 68030 systems. If you have an
intense animation you want to put to video you may well need the speed
of the 68030 system. I know because I only have a standard 2000, and
have faced the above mentioned problem more than once. You can work
around it by compromising when you create your video,but this can put
a serious crimp in your creative juices. Their is a conference in the
notes file on Ray_Tracing. It contains several pointers to the various
rendering software available on the vax.
bill
ps. I once told my wife that Disk space,memory,and processor speed are
like money. You can never have too much.
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| 4055.2 | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Larger than life, and twice as ugly | Tue Aug 28 1990 07:30 | 7 | |
FWIW, benchmarks indicate that 68020/68030/68882 equipped Amigas can
easily match or even outperform many VAX models in floating point
performance.
Ed
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