re bit graphics wonko the sane oehler yar cs wisc edu wrote i was recently talking to a possible employer mine and he made a reference to a bit graphics computer image processing system i seem to remember it being called image or something akin to that anyway he claimed it had bit color a bit alpha channel that s bits of info what could that possibly be for specifically the bit color that s trillion colors many more than the human eye can resolve is this an anti aliasing thing or is this just some magic number to make it work better with a certain processor i m pretty sure most industry strength image processing specific systems i e photo processing gear use as much as bits of color info why why not oversampling is never a bad idea especially if the hardware s only task is image manipulation and profressional photographers demand professional results also to settle a bet with my roommate what are sgi s flagship products i know of iris indigo and crimson but what are the other ones and which is their top of the line sadly i have access to none of them just a dec sigh strange question but anyway there s the vgx line the newer indigo and the onyx systems are the new big boys on the block you can get a processor system with twice the graphics performance of a reality engine there s more but i don t have my handy periodic table of sgi s on me keith
