[geeks] ive been converted

[joshua d boyd]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:44:10PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:06:43PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> > pwargo at basenji.com writes:
> > 
> > >Hee, hee... Now picture a 500MHz G4 w/1G RAM, and you'll know why I am
> > >grinning when I sit down to do any photoshop work. :-)
> > 
> > Someone was telling me once that there's a system that's designed for
> > photoshop-style image manilpulation, the way SGIs are designed for 3d
> > rendering, called a "paintbox" I think? Anyone know anything about
> > that?

OpenGL has a lot in it that is extremely useful for Photoshop style
work.  And the O2 seems almost like it was designed for 2D imaging
tasks.  Almost everything is accelerated in hardware.  That's why, even if
the Impact is a "faster" machine, I think I'd prefer the O2.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd