mit123 opened this issue on Aug 17, 2003 ยท 12 posts
yggdrasil posted Mon, 18 August 2003 at 11:54 AM
Don't have any of the images any longer, but my intro into cgi was writing assembly language demos on a 32K BBC Model B Micro for a computer science course I took in high school for extra maths credits (which would make it aroung 83/84). How times have changed. A simple 16 colour 400 x 400 Mandelbrot Fractal took hours (sometimes days). And wireframe models of more than a couple dozen vertices really stressed the machines real-time animation abilities. Later on I wrote some 3D landscape generators in University, then I came across an early version of Bryce and haven't looked back since. Guess it taught me patience, cause P5's rendering doesn't feel THAT slow :) -- Mark
Mark