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From: a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DigiWorks 3D
Message-ID: <2374@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 90 02:48:21 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> jol@sei.cmu.edu writes:
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> Msg-ID: <7721@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
> Posted: 3 Jul 90 15:52:28 GMT
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> Org.  : Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
> Person: Jun Lee
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Has anyone used DigiWorks 3D?  If you have what do you think of the product.
> I'm thinking of buying it but would like to get some kind of review
> from the netters before forking out $85.
> 
> 
>  ThanX
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Digiworks 3D is one of those programs, to paraphrase my friend Duane, that you
wonder why you paid so much for it because you only use it for 3 minutes at a
time.
It is a handy utility and has saved me hours, if not minutes of work. My
biggest complaint is that there is no 'magnify' option. The program doesn't get
the shapes exactly right the first try and you have to help it along by adding
or deleting or joining points by hand. This can get very tedious when the
points are close together and you can't see that there are two points or three
or seven in a given 1x1 pixel area.
Actually, now that I think about it more, the algorythms that figure out what
shape the 2D image is are pretty dumb. They may be the best you can possibly
get on a computer until artificial intelligence steps onto this particular
scene, though. It's unfortunate. Up here in Canada we are paying $175.00Can for
this program and if I'd known then the amount of work it was going to save me,
I would have bought a year's supply of Sensation ice cream bars instead.
-Ron Tarrant
a976@Mindlink.UUCP