PRIVAC, Incorporated

SIGGRAPH 1984

Real time graphics processor with unprecedented performance to price ratio. The PRIVAC CT 1000 features a 1 K x 1 K resolution with 4 to 32 bit planes, a 16 million color palette and on-board display list storage up to 8 megabytes. A custom microcoded processor and a 68000 allow drawing speeds up to 400 million pixels/second, real time 30 coordinate transforms at the rate of 800,000/ second and hardware implemented 20 and 30 graphics primitives. CT-1000 can 30 transform, clip and draw in perspective shaded triangles with 20 pixel length sides at a rate of 100,000 triangles/second