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Show Page 3 and should not be thought of as an exhaustive list of applications. APPLICATIONS 1. Ceneration of realistic renderin,s of free-form surfaces to assess their utility in the geometric desin process 2. Design, rendering and animation of complex scenes 3. 2-D picture processing, scene analysis, and psycho-visual investigation The following criteria reflect the hardware requirements of 4. Education and experimentation in graphics 5. Production of visual aids for instruction purposes 6. Craphics display of simulated ealtime events 7. Development of rendering algorithms 8. Various realtime interactions with spatial images 9. IC layout design (VLSI) SELECTION CRITERIA the above applications • • 1. Has interface with a PDP-II computer,' the principal computer . of the graphics facility 2. Memory resolution of 512x512 (or 480x512 or 512x640) for high esolution images 3. Minimum of 8 bits for the digital-to-analog converters to provide a reasonable resolution of video' intensities 4. 24 memory planes in all, to provide for true color images 5. ood memoy access CDMA or address space window, auto lncrementlng and decrementing, and 50% access by host computer) , |
