3D Rendering Speed Contest

Rob Art Morgan updated his 3D rendering shoot out with a 7500 stuffed with a PowerLogix PowerForce G3 275 cranked up to 300 MHz, his new rendering king at 27-28 seconds (hard to tell exactly from the graph) for the Countach sample in Ray Dream 3D. The former king, a PowerMac G3 266 at 35-36 seconds, had been soundly beaten by my 9600 with a PowerLogix PowerForce G3 250 cranked up to 289 MHz (cache at 289 MHz and system bus at 52.5 MHz) at 30 seconds with the MacPicasso 540/3D Overdrive graphics accelerator. However, my PowerForce G3 250 set at its CPU limit of 315 MHz (cache at 210 MHz and system bus at 45 MHz) just rendered the Countach in exactly 27 seconds! Okay, Rob, your turn. ;-)

Missed it? Here's what happened at the Be OS Developers Conference last week.

The Apple Developers Conference is coming up May 11-15, 1998.

The Macworld Expo '98 NYC Page is beginning to fill out.

"Fabrizio Oddone released Disk Charmer 3.1.2. You don't have to wait for Rhapsody to initialize disks in background.... Disk Charmer is a neat utility that lets you conveniently erase and copy disks, and handle disk images in DiskCopy and DiskDup+ format. If you have Mac OS 8.1, you can now use the Mac OS Extended format (a.k.a. HFS Plus) and even set the minimum allocation block size. Disk Charmer lets you create larger disks: you gain 8K on 800K disks, 18K on HD disks, 1.5MB on Zips. Help Balloons are everywhere. Disk Charmer has a nice, modeless interface. It fully supports drag&drop. It supports the handy "Undo" feature we all know and love. For more info, check out the Disk Charmer web page: http://www.kagi.com/fab/diskcharmer.html."

Here's Apple's own press release on its developer's release of QuickTime for Java.