[rescue] 3D machines

[Joshua D. Boyd]

BTW, after nearly a year of fighting with my Lintel machine, I finally got
3D acceleration to work.  Testing it in blender, it is evident that it is
no longer software only.  However, it is nowhere near as fast at display
updates as the blender on the O2, even if the O2 has a totally inadequate
display.

But, this might just be my machine demonstrating why 3DFX deserved to die.
Afterall, blender on windows on my sisters computer is much faster, and
she only has a dinky Riva128, and much less memory and CPU power than my
box.  Sigh.  It is these difficulties with acceleration that make me long
for an SGI of reasonably recent vintage more than anything else.  At this
point, even an Indy or 4D might be an improvement, although I think I can
hold out until either an O2 or Indigo2 Hi Impact are within reach.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:48:49PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Actually, I just said that 12x was a lot of compression.  However, come to
> > think of it, Firewire and MiniDV only uses 4megs per second, and that
> > means that it is compressed even more.  Still, this rules out dual stream
> > editing, but you don't have the software for that anyway.  
> 
> Dunno about MiniDV, but Firewire "a" is 400Mbps=50Mbytes/s; "b" is
> 800Mbps=100Mbytes/s.
> 
> Many typical DV-quality or lower streams are somewhere around 3.5-4megs per
> second.  Sony makes a box that accepts analog video and outputs 3.5meg/s.
> 
> > If by LVM, you are talking about Linux Volume Manager, then there is
> > something like that for irix.  But I don't know if it costs extra or not.
> 
> before Linux, LVM meant "logical volume management/manager".  I think XFS
> has this capability but the last Irix I played with was somewhere around 5.3
> and at that point was an add-in.
> 
> 
> > Really, there are so many ways to do things on that machine.  I wish I had
> > one (on the list of things to consider once employment for fall and/or
> > spring is confirmed).
> 
> quote, "me too" endquote  :-)
> 
> ./patrick
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