I wrote this article. The Juggler was the first time I'd seen raytracing on a computer and watching these pre-rendered animations on the Amiga was one of the th

I wrote this article. The Juggler was the first time I'd seen raytracing on a computer and watching these pre-rendered animations on the Amiga was one of the thrills of the system, as it surpassed all consumer micros of the day graphically, as far as on-screen colors. The Amiga's Hold-And-Modify (HAM) mode could render the full 4096-color palette on-screen and was very well suited for displaying ray traced scenes with their realistic coloring and shading and could do so at a resolution of 320x400 (4:3 aspect) and at a sufficient framerate, given the flexibility and power of the Amiga's blitter and memory architecture. As such, it seemed worth a mention here.