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To: greenspirit who wrote (60992)	7/24/1998 9:47:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thread, Article...Intergraph technology to speed up 3-D on Wintel systems July 24, 1998 InfoWorld Electric: Intergraph Computer Systems on Tuesday introduced a 3-D graphics technology that aims to bring the performance of industry-leading RISC processor-based graphics workstations to Intel architecture systems running Windows NT. Wildcat 3D graphics technology, based on Intergraph's ParaScale architecture, delivers performance scalable from five to 10 times that of current 3-D graphics technology, said Wade Patterson, Intergraph Computer Systems' president and chief executive. The target is industry leader Silicon Graphics' InfiniteReality systems, which are based on MIPS RISC CPUs and SGI's Irix operating system, he said. ParaScale is a modular architecture, scalable by adding dedicated chips for 3-D geometry acceleration and rasterization, Patterson said. It enables a wide range of graphics products with performance ranging from entry level to extremely high end. Wildcat 3D graphics will let creative and technical professionals work interactively in real time with realistic, full-size, fully textured 3-D models instead of low-resolution or down-sized images, Patterson noted. This will increase productivity in 3-D graphics-intensive applications such as visual simulation, animation, mechanical CAD (MCAD), medical simulation and imaging, and scientific visualization. The graphics technology can render at a rate of 20 million polygons per second and can support as much as 1GB of texture memory. SuperScene delivers scene-based anti-aliasing to the Windows NT platform, allowing, for example, MCAD professionals to rotate complex 3-D objects in real time while maintaining the visual integrity of all surfaces and edges. Visual simulation professionals can more accurately simulate real-world conditions for trainees. The first product based on Wildcat 3D graphics technology, the Intense 3D Wildcat 4100 graphics card, is an Accelerated Graphics Port board that will be priced at $2,995 when it ships in December. These accelerators will be available in Intergraph's TDZ2000 ViZual workstations as well as in Intel/Windows NT-based workstations from other computer OEMs. Currently, Intergraph's Intense 3D Pro graphics products are used in workstations from Compaq Computer, Dell, IBM, and Fujitsu, as well as Intergraph. Wildcat supports current and future graphics APIs, including the forthcoming Fahrenheit as well as OpenGL, Direct3D, RenderGL, DirectDraw, and 2D GDI. ______________________________________________________________________ Regards, Michael