I remember the LISP cards for the Mac implementation
Ah - S-paint
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Ferenc Koscso <ferenc.koscso@penna-media.hu
> wrote:
> **
>
>
> Everything was so slow, I was using a PC based 3d animation and paint
> system (286 CPU, 25 Mhz). An 8 sec very simple spinning cube animation
> with video on all visible side has taken some 10 days to renderŠ Had some
> time to drink coffee at the univrsity canteen.. :)
>
> The 3650 was really big like a typical russian fridge. A bit later there
> was an Apple Mac Quadra based system too with a special processing card in
> it.
>
> ferenc
>
>
> On 7/16/12 8:22 PM, "Bruce Tovsky" <bruce@skeletonhome.com> wrote:
>
> >yup, 20+ years ago. NVI in NYC had three of them - the 3650 sounds
> >familiar - and they were like fridges size-wise. looked great on the
> >machine, not so great off tape (SD only), and were SLOW....
> >b
> >
> >On Jul 16, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Ferenc Koscso wrote:
> >
> >> I liked Symbolics a lot.
> >> I was using several Symbolics system , I remember a big one called
> >>3650. :)
> >> I even got training in High Wycombe, where their head office was
> >>sometime
> >> around 1993. Saw one of the very first HD resolution graphics/3d
> >>animation
> >> there, while it was rendered at the office, it was a kind anti AIDS ad
> >>if í
> >> remember well.
> >> One of the very first 3D animation award at Cannes International
> >>Advertising
> >> Film Festival
> >> was a Golden Lion Award for Best Commercial 1992, BMW ³Mercury², which
>
> >>was
> >> made on a Symbolics system with heavy use of its programming language
> >>LISP.
> >> It was exactly 20 years ago :)
> >>
> >> Ferenc
> >>
> >> From: Bruce Tovsky <bruce@skeletonhome.com>
> >> Reply-To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> >> Date: Monday, July 16, 2012 8:05 PM
> >> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: graphics from the past
> >>
> >> you got it to work for 20 minutes????? let's talk about Symbolics
> >>next!!!
> >>
> >> On Jul 16, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Jeff Krebs wrote:
> >>
> >> > I love the Quantel Paintbox line -
> >> > you can store 180 full frame images!.
> >> >
> >> > I remember spending years on the Dubner Graphics Factory after we
> >>retired
> >> > our 20k.
> >> > And the 3d module sucked. I remember the engineer at NAB when we
> >>complained
> >> > about it telling us to "get off his back"
> >> > $100, 000 for the privilege of crashing every 20 minutes.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:26 AM, oliverpetersvidy <
> >> > oliverpeters@oliverpeters.com
> >><mailto:oliverpeters%40oliverpeters.com> >
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> **
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> A nice look back:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/07/graphics-awesomeness-circa-1990.html
> >> >>
> >> >> - Oliver
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Jeff Krebs
> >> > Director of Sales
> >> > eyeon Software Inc.
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> >> > Mobile - 416 902 1259
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> >> > http://www.eyeonline.com
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