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Re: First ever render (Aladdin4d)
« on: December 14, 2009, 03:48:07 AM »
Yes, the story about Babylon5 and Amigas has been repeated many many times:
Wikipedia states:


Babylon 5 also distinguished itself at a time when models and miniature were still standard by becoming one of the first television shows to use computer technology in creating visual effects. This was achieved using Amiga-based Video Toasters at first, and later Pentium and Alpha-based systems.


My first real animation render was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqskizMHQg

I have Deluxe Paint and Lightwave on the Video Toaster but haven't really got that far with them.. I find Lightwave difficult to use even on IRIX.

Aladdin4D seems interesting.. I will have to check it out sometime.

I wrote my own ray tracer which I wrote an article about in Doctor Dobbs Journal (Nov, 1999)... I should try porting it to the Amiga some time..

-4K.
Amiga 4000 VideoToaster NTSC 110v
Amiga 4000 CD-ROM PAL-SECAM 240v
24 x MIPS CPUs Onyx2 37.5 Gb RAM DIVO/Genlock and about four racks including 12 x R14000 CPU o300, MountainGate SCSI S-VHS, fiberchannel, SAS, craylink, gigachannel, ccNUMAlink, etc.. and stuff scrounged from local studios, TV Film and Radio school

http://pymblesoftware.com/store/index.php/systems/amiga.html