childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs) (08/11/88)
Hi,
I went to SigGraph in Atlanta and I have a little news and a trade
offer. For Amiga people C= was showing the new high res 1000+ by 800+ mono
monitors. They were extremely nice. Dale Luck showed X running on a
2000, said it would run on any Amiga with 1Meg of RAM. NeWS was also running
on a 500. Ameristar was showing NeWS. I wanted to buy one or both, but
no-one would take my money. (Monitors and X or NeWS)
Apple had a animation called Pencil Test. It was very good. It was basically
a cartoon, done entirely on a MAC II. (so they said)
I won a copy of Pixel Paint for the MAC II at one of the demonstrations. It
is a demo copy only and cannot be resold. If anyone is interested in making
a swap for this with some Amiga software, please let me know. Pixel Paint
costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $400-$500. At least that's what the
people who gave it to me said. I might consider a swap of my Amiga for a
MAC II insted.
I'll respond in greater deatail if there is any interest. Probably just
to one or the other group though.
David
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Boulder, CO 80301sarrel@dulcimer.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) (08/12/88)
In article <3551@cadnetix.COM> childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs) writes: >Apple had a animation called Pencil Test. It was very good. It was basically >a cartoon, done entirely on a MAC II. (so they said) What do you mean "so they said"? I was at SIGGRAPH as well. I also thought "Pencil Test" was very good. Is Apple going to _lie_ about something like that? I went to the animation screening Tuesday night and just about everyone cheered when the graphic came up that said that "Pencil Test" had been done on a Mac II. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by saying that it was a cartoon. It was a computer animation, just like all the other computer animations there. Actually, I heard that the software they used to make it was a version of Twixt ported to the Mac II. For those who don't know, Twixt was done here at Ohio State as a PhD dissertation by a guy named Julian Gomez. It is a fancy keyframe system. Instead of just allowing you to keyframe whole frames at one time, it allows you to put splines through key points on tracks. A track would be something like the x or y coordinate of a object over time. Tracks also are used for such things a scale, rotation, color, and (if you don't mind getting fancy) shape. I would say that "Pencil Test" was certainly better than IBM's sole entry into the animation show. All they did was a fly-through of a 3-d Julia Set. They didn't put any fancy colors on it. They didn't do any dramatic changes of scale. Just a simple, silent (it didn't have _any_ sound track at all) fly-through. I think the response that the audience gave it was the very definition of a smattering of applause. I guess that the only reason it got into the show in the first place was that the theme of this year's SIGGRAPH was scientific visualization. -=- Marc Sarrel, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277 sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu "If you wanna have fun, go to Washington. Spokane!" -- Cleric Apton