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Old 18-03-2020, 10:25 AM
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OMG....I had an Amiga 1000, 2000 then finally 2500 with a 68030 (?) accelerator card. I was also writing (moonlighting) for Australian Commodore and Amiga review magazine, and 3D rendered quite a few of the covers for the magazine.

It literally took 24hours to render one frame (at around 4k resolution) for the cover....and if you missed something, you had to back into the wireframe editor, fix it, and wait another day!

The scenes were not that complex when compared to contemporary 3D work, which can now render in realtime....something you'd dream and wonder about back then (very late 1980's)...but is taken for granted today.
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