From: "<John Wann>" <john1@ED.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: TECH: Shadows in VR Graphics
Date:         Fri, 20 Oct 1995 08:37:38 +0000


Jorge Alvoeiro (J.Alvoeiro@psychology.hull.ac.uk) wrote:
: I have been looking at most software packages for VR and I have not
: found one that creates shadows. Does anybody know if there is one that
: does?

One package you may want to check out is the IBM 3D interaction
accelerator(RS6000 & SGI machines) which purports to handle shadows as well
as many other features - is anyone currently running this and can state
their opinions on its stereo/texture/frame-rate features ?

Full info on:
http://www.research.ibm.com/xw-p4205-description00.html

JW

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