Re: [Plib-devel] PLIB developers needed.

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Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> 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.

Sorry, but what's the clip-texture really doing?

> 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.

But it's been still very impressive (esp. at a time where nobody would
expect 3d accelleration for consumer PCs)

> 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'.

Yup, that's the demo I saw. SGI also had a Nintendo-64 prototype at
their booth running SuperMario 64.

CU,
Christian