foy@aero.UUCP (04/10/87)
In article <437@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes: >I went today to the SICOB (a kind of french CES). .... >I saw a demo from Very Vivid soft called The Mandala. >I have no words to describe it: it is plainly fantastic. .... >an object on the screen then an action is done (real-time). ... >I can't describe all the demo (it is a few minutes long with many effects) >but if you have any occasion to see it, Don't (DON'T) miss it. I sure hope that some one on the net creates something like this, with source, and gets it on a Fish Disk. Richard Foy
ccplumb@watnot.UUCP (04/11/87)
foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy) says (in <9895@aero.ARPA>): >In article <437@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes: >>I saw a demo from Very Vivid soft called The Mandala. >>I have no words to describe it: it is plainly fantastic. > >I sure hope that some one on the net creates something like this, with source, >and gets it on a Fish Disk. If you can, great!, but you're not gonna catch *me* trying. (Also, that demo you saw is 2 disks executable+data. It might not fit on `a' Fish disk. :-)) First of all, it requires a real-time (at least 30 frames/sec) video frame grabber. This is the easy part. VV is working on a one-bitplane one that goes 60 frames/sec. They hope to get it down to $300. Secondly, the Mandala is a *lot* of work. I heard 2 years solid programming, and some number before that designing it. Do you have that much spare time? -- -Colin Plumb (watmath!ccplumb) Silly quote: There's going to be hell and high water to pay.