Nacho Sanz-Pastor. Computer Arts + Developments (nacho++at++comarts.es)
Sat, 10 Jun 1995 15:50:16 -0700
I would like to point out two more things:
First, we assume this is an Iris Performer forum devoted to help us all make
better use of the SGI systems as full featured IGs. Of course, when I say that
we all should look to Flight Unlimited and think, I mean that maybe we - the
developers - are missing something when a guy with a Pentium can afford to
challenge our RE2s. Which are excellent IGs.
Michael, John, Jim, Sharon, Chris and Gennie are making an excellent work in
turning a workstation into a top of the line IG, but we just can't expect them
to do all the work as we just sit and relax, and pretend to load a hundred
thousand polygon unpartitioned .flt file in perfly and run it at 60hz. We also
have a lot of work to do in software and database design, and should reward
their efforts from time to time with apps that make them say 'Wow, how did they
do that ! '.
Our challenges should come out of the SGI forum, not from a $75 PC game (
which is excellent, btw ).
And second, with this spirit in mind invited everyone interested to see our
geospecific texture paging demos. That have been shown at ITEC this past April,
in the Developer's Forum and at the Mtn View Vis Sim Lab for some months.
We don't pretend to be better than any other developer or anything, we just
show what we have and we'd be happy if someone has something faster or better,
since this is what fuels improvements, and this is what the spirit of this
forum should be. Sharing information to make us all write better apps in our
SGIs.
Of course we too have other stuff we cannot show, but since that work is
classified, even our marketing people would not dare to talk about it in a
public forum with at least 601 in it, and where at least some of them are not
Performer based, not fully commited to the SGI platform and porting to other
IGs, such as the REAL 3D box from Martin.
We just want people to read the subtexload man page ( how many still left
that hasn't yet ? ) and try to write stuff that makes the PC look like a
GameBoy.
But never doubt that Gemini will bring us soon new Visions of Reality.
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