Pixel Machines

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Tue Sep 24 00:48:22 2002

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> There's a AT&T/Pixel Machines model 964d 'video thing' down at university
> salvage, and I was wondering if anyone had any information on them.

Yes, but it is in german ;-)

> It
> appears to have been produced in 1989 by an offshoot of AT&T called "Pixel
> Machines". Using google, the only result I can get that matches "Pixel
> Machines" and 964 or 964d is a thesis of some sort, which doesn't have a
> whole lot of useful information on the beast. As far as I can tell, it's
> some sort of redering/raytracing 'thing', and from its outputs, it appears
> like it might output NTSC video.

It is a very interesting thing. Someking of a multiprocessor system
for rendering pictures. A lot of research was doen on this thing.
And few nice algorithms were found ...
 
> I'm not sure yet if I want to bother lugging it up here - it's about
> 2ft x 2ft x 1ft in size, and looks like it might weigh as much as a small
> car.

Would be bad to loose something like this to the dumpster,
but paying shipping, ...

What do you think, how heavy it really is ?

cheers
Received on Tue Sep 24 2002 - 00:48:22 BST