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
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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