The "SGI IRIS 2400 (1985)" presentation really turned me on:
".If all comes together in a system, that transfoms clips and diplays data
at rates to 70,0000 coordinates per second.Gives you twentytwothousand
depth-cueded lines per second.With true pespective.The system performs
operations with full thirtytwo bit floating point precision... Your
workstation calculates and draws beziers. B-Splines! Cardinal-Splines! And
other cubic curves in real time.
That's marketing I understand, doh!
sven
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of steven parish
(NY)
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 22:40
To: softim...@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Excellent collection of vintage CG
http://www.youtube.com/user/VintageCG
Great stuff from the 1980's.. I particularly like Alias's "Eric the Dynamic
Worm" and Rhythm and Hues's Chromosaur!
Steve P
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