Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Voice Mail on Amiga Message-ID: <1989Oct2.132314.12313@rpi.edu> Date: 2 Oct 89 13:23:14 GMT References: <688@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu's message of 2 Oct 89 06:25:14 GMT In kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes: Nguyen> The demo I saw was of an aspirin molecule being rotated through Nguyen> various axes. The drawing essentially looked like a bunch of spheres, Nguyen> but the neat thing (pointed out, of course) was that you could "see Nguyen> through" the spheres (you could see other spheres/atoms behind them) Nguyen> hazily. This was supposedly a highly CPU-intensive demo, so it made Nguyen> sense that the other demos went rather slowly. It shouldn't have been highly CPU-intensive. You could do the same thing on the Amiga very easily- just do the computation beforehand.... (The way to make impressive demos is *not* to slow down the machine.) Nguyen> When did you last see a graphics/mouse-based interface for a Unix Nguyen> workstation? About 12 hours ago. (Sorry, I couldn't resist... and you did ask....) :) -- Robert Jude Kudla What noisy cats are we.