[rescue] Sun 711

[David Passmore]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:15:36AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Ahem.  The cost of good graphics hardware is not a waste here.  More 
> sophisticated systems do real time film simulation (grain, how it reacts to
> color, etc), a task that is helped by a good OpenGL w/ imaging support card.
> Also usefull is 16bit color.  In a recent CGW article, the effects company
> for the Time Machine went to great lengths explaining the benefits of 16bit
> for their task.  It allows for much more extreme input and output.
> 
> Now, all sorts of 3D processing is wasted, but in this day and age really good
> 2D doesn't ever come without 3D.

I was speaking about Shawn's original application, which does not seem to
take any of what you're talking about into account.

David