Re: [Plib-devel] PLIB developers needed.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Gil Carter wrote:
 
>> But I doubt that we can run the famous Mont Blanc demo from SGI where
>> you can zoom from a space view of the earth down to the Mont Blanc and
>> fly around it. On the fair where I saw it (on an ONYX :-)) ) they told
>> me that the textures had a resolution of 1 metre and you could see the
>> walking tracks...
> 
> IIRC, that application is also a pretty good demonstration of Performer's
> ClipTextures, which allow the management of much larger textures than will
> fit into physical texture memory.  I think ClipTextures are implemented
> using special hardware on the Onyxes, so that demo will need some major
> surgery to work on a PC!

It certainly does use clip-texture - that's why they wrote that particular
demo.

However, it's a rather 'rigged' demo because you can only zoom in on
Mont Blanc - you can't (for example) zoom in on a point 10 miles south
of there.

They had a version where you zoomed in past the mountain and onto a
Nintendo-64 (which was developed by SGI) - through the case and down
into the 'Reality Chip'.

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