jol@sei.cmu.edu (Jun Lee) (07/03/90)
Hi.
Has anyone used DigiWorks 3D? If you have what do you think of the product.
I'm thinking of buying it but would like to get some kind of review
from the netters before forking out $85.
ThanX
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================================================================================mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) (07/05/90)
In article <7721@fy.sei.cmu.edu> jol@sei.cmu.edu (Jun Lee) writes: >Hi. > >Has anyone used DigiWorks 3D? If you have what do you think of the product. Digiworks 3D does a nice job of converting bitmap images to vector format. It is also quite easy to use. Its only real drawback is no zoom feature. One additional thing to note, its polygon fill feature is rather good and can be over 60 times faster than Sculpt-Animate at this task. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark Thompson | | mark@westford.ccur.com | | ...!{decvax,uunet}!masscomp!mark Designing high performance graphics | | (508)392-2480 engines today for a better tomorrow. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +
a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant) (07/07/90)
> jol@sei.cmu.edu writes: > > Msg-ID: <7721@fy.sei.cmu.edu> > Posted: 3 Jul 90 15:52:28 GMT > > Org. : Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA > Person: Jun Lee > > Hi. > > Has anyone used DigiWorks 3D? If you have what do you think of the product. > I'm thinking of buying it but would like to get some kind of review > from the netters before forking out $85. > > > ThanX > ======================================================================= > ========= > The Eelman // > \/\/\_/\_8> \\ // > jol@sei.cmu.edu \X/ > (412) 268-7602 "If it weren't for the disappointments in my life, > I would not have any appointments at all" _ND > ======================================================================= > ========= Digiworks 3D is one of those programs, to paraphrase my friend Duane, that you wonder why you paid so much for it because you only use it for 3 minutes at a time. It is a handy utility and has saved me hours, if not minutes of work. My biggest complaint is that there is no 'magnify' option. The program doesn't get the shapes exactly right the first try and you have to help it along by adding or deleting or joining points by hand. This can get very tedious when the points are close together and you can't see that there are two points or three or seven in a given 1x1 pixel area. Actually, now that I think about it more, the algorythms that figure out what shape the 2D image is are pretty dumb. They may be the best you can possibly get on a computer until artificial intelligence steps onto this particular scene, though. It's unfortunate. Up here in Canada we are paying $175.00Can for this program and if I'd known then the amount of work it was going to save me, I would have bought a year's supply of Sensation ice cream bars instead. -Ron Tarrant a976@Mindlink.UUCP
caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) (07/10/90)
In article <2374@mindlink.UUCP> a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant) writes: >> jol@sei.cmu.edu writes: >> >> Msg-ID: <7721@fy.sei.cmu.edu> >> Posted: 3 Jul 90 15:52:28 GMT >> >> Org. : Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA >> Person: Jun Lee >> >> Hi. >> >> Has anyone used DigiWorks 3D? If you have what do you think of the product. >> I'm thinking of buying it but would like to get some kind of review >> from the netters before forking out $85. >scene, though. It's unfortunate. Up here in Canada we are paying $175.00Can for >this program and if I'd known then the amount of work it was going to save me, >I would have bought a year's supply of Sensation ice cream bars instead. There is a new program out, called Pixel 3d, that does the same type of thing that DigiWorks 3D does. It outputs to TurboSilver, Sculpt, VideoScape, and DXF format. Of the things I have run through it, it has done a __VERY__ clean job on the conversion. My biggest complaint is how it handles memory, though. You tell it an allocation factor and goes and uses that to grab a chunk of memory at the beginning and thus does not have to check out of memory errors all the time. However, even at its largest allocation I can overflow it quite easily. -=> CAW /////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Christopher A. Wichura caw@miroc.chi.il.us (my amiga) u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (my school account) Please! Do not send mail to my school account unless mail to miroc bounces. I often do not check uicvm.uic.edu for periods in excess of a week. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////