jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (09/25/89)
"Secrets & Mysteries" is currently showing at 5:00pm Sunday on Channel 5
in San Francisco; it may have been picked up by other local stations.
(It's been around the cable channels for over a year now.)
The show's opening sequence (an eye floating above a pyramid, a man shooting
sparks at Stonhenge) was done on an expensive machine called a Paintbox, but
most of the rest of the graphics were done on an Amiga.
Today's episode (24-Sep in the Bay Area) was on the Titanic. If it shows up
again, look for an animation of the Titanic at sea approaching an iceberg,
then an anim of an outcropping of ice ripping a hole in the hull. (This
scene is repeated later.) The next obvious Amiga graphic is a top view,
showing three scenarios. Edward Mulhare is saying: "The Titanic could have
turned 10 seconds earlier and missed completely, or not turned at all -
hitting head on - a survivable collision." Also, when flickering pattern
of squares used to segue from one film clip to another was done by color
cycling in Dpaint.
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