Nice read. The features were amazing at the time (many of them are still by today). However, two features were not accomplished I think :)
User Interface "Tesselation Control: Display of tesselated geometry used in rendering (e.g. for displacement mapping)" Maybe they referred to subdees. If so, it's kinda correct but didn't include displacement mapping by mental ray. Interactive Rendering "Refresh Optimization: Re-renders only the pixels affected by tuning" I don't think so. Mental ray introduced a feature called "incremental echo", to speed up scene translation. Was demoed by someone from Softimage and I still have the video. But it was several years after Twister was announced. Also that feature wasn't per pixel based, to my knowledge. Other than that it still amazes me how ahead of it's time Softimage was. Sven From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Friday, 27 July 2018 23:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #345 Here’s the accompanying Twister sales sheet available at the Softimage booth the day the announcement was made: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mantom.net_softimage_twister.pdf&d=DwIGaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=YZ8W3_z6Wn9joYN_dinSYOJCCmchxGKHWxqZLrK2UT8&s=uDoV-VYfSiPqzm3TY2KRAeooDBbl07SVJtSPnCY-u8k&e= Matt Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:20:07 -0400 From: Stephen Blair <[email protected]> Subject: Friday Flashback #345 To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_forum_-23-21forum_xsi-5Flist&d=DwIGaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=YZ8W3_z6Wn9joYN_dinSYOJCCmchxGKHWxqZLrK2UT8&s=AbDpsZ8dOvxvs3pESZbWEezFXvY3OyUGi12OHz5UDpU&e="; <[email protected]> Message-ID: <cani5zxnbukm6gjve1zmi_h6phk9s9b0w+mjmcx4g70wyrzd...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Microsoft Press Release: Softimage ?Twister? Enters Beta at SIGGRAPH 1998 "We fully expect Twister to set a new benchmark in the industry as the first truly interactive renderer.? https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wp.me_powV4-2D3tW&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=QYcYWoNbob1A5lZlC43uf-jpsP5Zjvzg32yUvllMBUg&s=Bi6I7AtZv7QlBlQAqD8m8BsYG2brKkBMjKOtaMQO-Gk&e= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed… URL: http://listproc.autodesk.com/mailman/private/softimage/attachments/20180727/854990cc/attachment-0001.html <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__u7507473.ct.sendgrid.net_wf_click-3Fupn-3D4NJpoo1h1GOdyqBB3sJimai-2D2BQC-2D2FGskUXuPx0XSl6rNdr5Gg0XscjA7dk-2D2BFQcvfCTrPyNVTe21bXODeNjelkdcj7ocyG7Qzl-2D2FhzVov6tKwKiHo-2D2By5Gc72Uz7Pb1BR8hSkbny37XlpF5jrBD9lM-2D2Bk54Q98-2D2BaKzehkQ7XqUI2Mtjn4-2D3D-5FdhxBdI84JeZ90JuzQ58Sn3QQDvL3V7floK5c-2D2FY0hrbhEyfWExGfqj1Pd15iz3yL6ihqs7sN4iGkfUXqTOciicNkEix4N-2D2FFIdwR-2D2BTJlBpQCOZUa-2D2BGwsWgSNV3Xzbb007cP7TX1ph25xvftx8xEsdZCqEIdMeABOaKspBUlIzK7K3PeBUnoTcHpYiCKezViKg-2D2BjuR3p3BhJthSjkm9xGiQDBoUVrrkoj3rpGFTe6RjZwY-2D3D&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=Oq8d57dDGU3Fawxp91MkYP3Fz3VuScrjs0vcDtEggkQ&s=GHG_7s7fjtm8x8EhDQU1qtB4_ZtysbrStO4whjNNEdg&e=> ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with “unsubscribe” in the subject, and reply to confirm. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__u7507473.ct.sendgrid.net_wf_open-3Fupn-3DdhxBdI84JeZ90JuzQ58Sn3QQDvL3V7floK5c-2D2FY0hrbhEyfWExGfqj1Pd15iz3yL6ihqs7sN4iGkfUXqTOciicCty8jlzW7Ly-2D2FhkZ1XQUIZ5aSiSSHZS71HaSFJPb6s7izhHPmjcN8XpFNOtobeQmNgcq5xBJX5TCOWs7i1fC0j5vVVjt2AEvy1PHcx4k8bBl3vu2JVYK-2D2Btb2WQFuekNpagQI1ud-2D2F5zeVDAuE8xUe230-2D3D&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=Oq8d57dDGU3Fawxp91MkYP3Fz3VuScrjs0vcDtEggkQ&s=VMi2pTqU8W2bft_sTb7dCkGzZHgtNMegHjtYL2O2fGc&e=>
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