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Pegasos in 3D Rendering

pixie

# 1
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 147 from 2003/9/5

From: Am*ga

Since some time from now MorphOS has Blender, and there's quite a few good open source renderers also that could, when used along with altivec push the Pegasos to it's limits. It might be of some interest to Studios as they reach professional quality for one fraction of the price.

Indigo
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Indigo is a gratis, actively developed render engine. Indigo uses methods such as MLT, Spectral light calculus, and virtual camera model. Indigo is capable of highly realistic renders. Scene data is stored in XML format.

Indigo features Monte-Carlo path tracing, experimental support for Bidirectional path tracing and MLT on top of bidirectional path tracing, distributed render capabilities, and progressive rendering .

home: Indigo Renderer

LuxRender
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LuxRender is a new, open-source, free software rendering system for physically correct, unbiased image synthesis.

Rendering with LuxRender means simulating the flow of light according to physical equations. This produces realistic, photographic-quality images.

home: Lux Render
pixie - writing from a paradise called Portugal
»11.11.07 - 16:15

itix

# 2
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 1520 from 2003/2/24

From: Finland

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Since some time from now MorphOS has Blender, and there's quite a few good open source renderers also that could, when used along with altivec push the Pegasos to it's limits. It might be of some interest to Studios as they reach professional quality for one fraction of the price.

Few problems:

1) Professional studios can afford expensive equipment
2) Pegasos was not very cheap
3) Pegasos is no longer in production
4) MPC5200 does not have an Altivec unit
1 + 1 = 3 with very large values of 1
»11.11.07 - 18:00

liquidbit

# 3
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 407 from 2003/10/12

What is the rendering speed of the Peg using the indigo 3D rendering engine?
Equivalent with a P4 2.4 for example ???

..there will be only one left.
»11.11.07 - 18:24

pixie

# 4
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 147 from 2003/9/5

From: Am*ga

@itix:

1) There's always those who can't, not all architecture studios (to name one of those activities who could benefit from it) are major, if a good, affordable solution is presented they would take it. Now if your question was to be why that solution would be PPC based instead of x86, then I would have to say that myself is searching for that very same reason.

2) The aim though was to get cheaper and competitive, don't we live in a competitive world, or is it just for cleaning some money?

3) Was it planned to be the end of the road in the first place?

4) What is the objective of being on PPC platform if it cannot use all there's to it? Genesi from what I gathered, aims to present a complete 'ecosystem' , as such somewhere in the path Altivec is to be present, probably Cell also, otherwise what would be the sense of presenting such concept in the first place?

@liquidbit:
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What is the rendering speed of the Peg using the indigo 3D rendering engine?

Sadly there's no port beside Windows, here' what I gathered on some blender benchmarks:

00:00:32.56 2x Apple Mac Pro 2660MHz 4 1024MB
00:00:32.69 2x Apple Power Macintosh G5 dual core 2600MHz 4 4096MB
00:00:33.24 1x Intel? Core?2Quad Q6600 2400MHz 2400MHz 4 Intel G33 Express 2048MB
00:03:03.24 1x Intel? Pentium? 4 2800MHz 2800MHz 1 1024MB
00:03:04.07 2x Apple Xserve G4 1330MHz 8 Radeon PCI 512MB
00:03:04.80 1x Intel? Core?2Duo E6400 2130MHz 2130MHz 1 1024MB
00:05:04.52 1x Intel? Pentium? 3 1000MHz 3100MHz 1 via 512MB
00:05:04.70 1x Apple PowerBook G4 Aluminum (15") 1670MHz 1 512MB
00:05:05.07 1x AMD Sempron? 2600+ 1833MHz 1833MHz 1 512MB

Nothing to be very excited...

[ Edited by pixie on 2007/11/11 20:14 ]
pixie - writing from a paradise called Portugal
»11.11.07 - 20:14