[Vis5d-users] FW: remove beberwyd@afwa.af.mil

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From: do...@cy... [mailto:do...@cy...]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:57 PM
To: dav...@af...
Subject: Re: remove beb...@af...


Test writes:
> 
> Capt Beberwyck no longer works here.  Please remove this address for from
> your mailing list.

Hi - You'll need to contact the vis5d mailing list; I didn't mail
directly to you.

Regards - don

> 
> Bill Hibbard writes:
> >   If your graphics card offer hardware accelerated OpenGL you
> >   may want to try out Hummingbird Exceed 3D:
> >   (http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html)
> >   This is a commercial X-Server software with OpenGL extensions.
> > 
> >   First of all: it works.
> 
> Adding to Bill's comments, the Hummingbird solution really can work
> quite nicely. I've run it over 100BTX from our Onyx2 to an SGI320/NT
> system as well as various IBM thinkpads, all with good success. I've
> observed 200K+ tris/sec sustained performance with the 320. Of course,
> in this mode all of the geometry is flowing over the wire and eventually
> that saturates things. I've worked on my NT box in my office on
> some pretty large projects without suffering unduly (eventually
> one treks to the Onyx2 console 'tho ;-). One example:
> 
> 	http://www.scd.ucar.edu/vg/CAT
> 
> On very large datasets I've occasionally observed instability in the
Exceed
> X server but could never pin it down enough to file a report. YMMV.
> 
> don
> 


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