10 Apr
2006
10 Apr
'06
7:36 p.m.
In article <009e01c65d0c$eaec8e40$5f25fea9 at ibm23xhr06>,
"John Allain" <allain at panix.com> writes:
Oooooh. Real-time volume rendering is always fun :-). The first
machine I ever saw that could do it was in 1987 at the NCGA conference
in Philly: the Pixar Image Computer (bet you didn't know Pixar was a
classic HW manufacturer, eh?). This machine was sweet! The Computer
History Museum has one in its collection. I wonder if it works!
Does anyone on the list own the Power Visualization System?
I think I remember seeing this thing at SIGGRAPH. It was the size of
a standing household refrigerator, if memory serves correctly.
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Speaking of
big IBM boxes... what sort of boxes did they offer for
3D graphics support prior to the RS/6000?
Well, just Concurrent with the RS6000 was the Power Visualization System
(PVS) that used multiple i860's (up to 32 in parallel) and HPPI RAID to
do real time volume visualization kinds of things.