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From: Susan.King@f270.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Susan King)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Ray-tracing code for 3-d quadratic objects
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Date: 12 Mar 90 12:48:04 GMT
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 > From: tom@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Tom_Balon)
 > Date: 2 Mar 90 23:04:26 GMT
 > Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
 > Message-ID: <1580005@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
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 > 
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 > 
 > 
 >         I looking for information on computer animation. I know
 > there
 >         are a few companies in the Bay Area that are involved
 > with
 >         animation ( Pixar, Industrial Light and Magic ). What
 > I'm looking
 >         for is any information on software packages for creating
 > animated
 >         sequences. I'm also looking for any good books on graphics/animation.
 > 
 >         I'm interested in software for DOS (386) machines, HP
 > or Apollo 
 >         workstations. Also, if anyone knows any names of other
 > companies
 >         in the bay area involved with computer animation, that
 > would be
 >         helpful too. Any help would be appreciated.
 > 
 > 
 >                                                 tom
 > 
 >                                                 tom@hpdsla.HP.COM

 
Tom, we have been successfully doing some animation sequences which 
we have outputed on both disk and video.
 
We are using a program called GRASP that works very nicely on a 386 
machine.
 
We have used screen captures from CAD to bring in the basic drawings.. 
rendered them in a paint program like Colorix or PC Paintbrush Plus...
and then used GRASP to animate... 
 
The results have been great!