[geeks] ive been converted

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2d?  and it's got it's framebuffer and tex mem in main memory?
	Nick

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, joshua d boyd wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:44:10PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:06:43PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> > > pwargo at basenji.com writes:
> > > 
> > > >Hee, hee... Now picture a 500MHz G4 w/1G RAM, and you'll know why I am
> > > >grinning when I sit down to do any photoshop work. :-)
> > > 
> > > Someone was telling me once that there's a system that's designed for
> > > photoshop-style image manilpulation, the way SGIs are designed for 3d
> > > rendering, called a "paintbox" I think? Anyone know anything about
> > > that?
> 
> OpenGL has a lot in it that is extremely useful for Photoshop style
> work.  And the O2 seems almost like it was designed for 2D imaging
> tasks.  Almost everything is accelerated in hardware.  That's why, even if
> the Impact is a "faster" machine, I think I'd prefer the O2.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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