[rescue] Sunblade 100 question

joshua d boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 12:16:53 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:31:59AM -0500, Reagen B . Ward wrote:
> I assume that Harmony is gone?  That was the best nonlinear editing prog
> I ever used.  Ran great with a cosmo board in an Indy.

Err, never heard of it.  If that is what it used, I'm assuming that it
would have been rather expensive.
 
> > The basic idea is to take a page from the SGI world and use the graphics
> > hardware for everything, including final rendering.  This only works if
> > the graphics hardware is very acurate.  John Carmack, among others, has
> > been commenting for years that consumer video cards make numerous math
> > shortcuts that can and do show up as visual artifacts.
> 
> I blame GL.  I blame it for everything, whether or not it really is
> to blame.  Never meant to be an interactive system, yet it was forced
> upon us through the murder of PHiGS.

Err, what was it meant to be?  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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