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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of steven parish (NY) Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 22:40 To: [email protected] 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 ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
