sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (scott sutherland) (02/04/89)
I haven't posted anything in the News for a while, so a few questions have begun to clutter my brain (which is too full of quantum mechanics, laser Raman spectroscopy, and computer graphics already), so here goes. First, what is Mathematica?? I am in the market for a raw data plotting program which will plot (x,y) data and (x,y,z) data in 3-D surface plots as well as 2-D contour plots, much like Grapher and Surfer for the I*M personal computers so prevalent in our chemistry laboratory here at UF. Second, I here all this talk about the 1084 and 1084S monitors for the Amy. Well, I have a 2002 monitor and I would like some technical and NON-technical info on the differences (both advantages and disadvantages) between them. I have noticed that the 2002 has separate CHROMA and LUMA inputs but the manual says only to use this in conjunction with a C-64. I have seen that CMI has 2 versions of their RF modulator, the difference being that one has separate CHROMA and LUMA on it. Does this separation help/hurt when transferring graphics to a VCR? Can someone describe the set-up I would use with this CMI, my Amy, my 2002, and a VCR to tape Turbo Silver and Sculpt-Animate3D RAM animations?? Finally, what is all this fuss over Multisync monitors? Why are they all the rage? Is the picture better? Do they eliminate INTERLACE flicker? Can you display OVERSCAN and SEVERE OVERSCAN (704x440 and 768x480 NTSC respectively) since they supposedly have 800x600 resolution? I would appreciate any help. Well, that's all for now. Remember my research group motto: MORE LASERS, MORE FUN!! Scott