(12-21-2023, 07:39 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: in support of work on CAD/CAM data exchange and what became the ISO STEP standard. We were tied into SGI servers in another lab which supported a VR cave we used from time to time. Good times.
Data exchange ? Isn't that the process of using 3rd party software to convert one 3d model/file to another, because the other companies don't want to use a standard ? hehe.
(12-21-2023, 07:39 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: My favorite SGI moment was when an cute IRIX 3-D file browser called fusion
"fsn" I had to google that, and found a bunch of images. It looks vaguely familiar. we may have installed the demo at one point.
We used our SGI boxes for 2D and 3D graphics for weather forecasts and animation production.
