From: kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (David M Kreindler)
Subject: Re: PC source for Hires Power Glove
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 17:03:12 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati



In article <1991Oct10.050259.5561@milton.u.washington.edu> galt@dsd.es.com 
(Greg Alt - Perp) writes:

>(btw has anyone found public domain 3D graphics system for PC's?)

They exist, but what it boils down to is, what do you want to use 3D
graphics on a PC *for*?  If it's anything even close to real-time
animation, using modern-day PC's are a dead end; rather, scrape
together a few more $$$, and go get yourself an SGI IRIS.  (Second-hand
ones can be quite functional and considerably less expensive, too.)

>From what I've seen, state-of-the-art on a vanilla PC is typified by what's
found in Microsoft's latest version of its Flight Simulator; compare
this to SGI's 'flight' on even a low-end IRIS, and you'll see why
attempting to do serious graphical work on a PC is virtually futile.

(Disclaimer: the above ain't intended as an endorsement; rather, it's the
result of many years of attempting to program IBM PC's, and fewer (but
happier) years working with Silicon Graphics machines....)

DK

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