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Re: 3D app Recommendations ???

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From: Michael B. Johnson
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:42
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andrew@cubetech.com writes
> In article <Jan.4.01.35.04.1993.11769@gandalf.rutgers.edu>  
szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) writes:
> >Hi all,
> >	I'm looking into buying one of the 3D apps out there, but
> >would like to get some recommendations from the more experienced
> >netters.  Any nutshell advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 3DReality and Tesseract are the only ones that are available now as
> far as I know.  3DReality is pretty good, and is inexpensive.  I think
> Stone Design got a _very_ raw deal in the NeXTWorld review. 

You're not kidding. "3DReality is a polygon based renderer".  Oh God.  That  
single statement conveys more ignorance about what RenderMan (hence the 3DKit,  
hence Stone's 3DReality) is about, I cringed.  As for the image they printed as  
"here's what you can do after using the app for awhile"...

Anybody that wants NeXTMail of spiff images you can do with 3DReality, let me  
know.  I'll take a few minutes and crank something out.



> 
> 
> andrew
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Subject: Re: 3D app Recommendations ???
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