Re: viAPI

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:26:30 -0700

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Jeff Minor wrote:
>
> "Suitable" is a subjective term and we don't all have the same
> requirements. We often accept around 10 Hz since we don't have a large
> degree of interaction with our app. Any chance this is possible on a
> 12-cpu Onyx IR with 4 RM's and 64MB of texture per RM?

Over what resolution and dataset size.

When rendering volumes often you must page texture even
with 64 MB or TRAM.

Depth complexity required is a trade off between texture resolution,
sampling precision and performance.

It may well be possible but it depends what you want to do.

Cheers,Angus.

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