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Subject: Re: Commercial use of AMIGA
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Date: 4 Aug 90 17:45:24 GMT
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In article <208@cbmtor.UUCP> caleb@cbmtor.UUCP (Caleb J. Howard ) writes:

>|Hello there.  I posted an article here the other day concerning the Video
>|effects used by the Grateful Dead in their stage production.  I stated that
>|the effects are generated by the Amiga computer.  

cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) crossposted an article from
alastair@sco.com which said:

>That I can confirm.  Two of my old high-school buddies did the Amiga work for
>the shows, doing video feedback stuff.  

There was a third one (as Alastair should remember--heh) who did
artwork that was scanned in and animated using DPaint III.  She drew
the bulk of the 2-D animations (as opposed to the 3-D ankh-to-yin-yang
stuff--did they end up using that one?--and the video feedback stuff).

>No videodiscs were used, although they did pipe stuff in through a 
>genlock device.

They mostly used the genlock (SuperGen, I believe) for video feedback
stuff.

>I'm not sure of the software
>they used, though  -- I'm just a unix hack, and am not familiar with Amiga
>software outside of Deluxe Paint and Marble Madness... :-)

As mentioned above, they used DPaint III for almost all of their 2D
animations (except for a few things generated by Digipaint 3).  They
also used Sculpt-Animate 4D for the 3D animations, and some
miscellaneous public domain screenhacks along with some video feedback
software I'm not familiar with for the psychedelic stuff.

None of them has actually seen one of the stage shows with their stuff
in it yet; if anyone who's seen them has comments on the animations
(and remembers any particular ones that were shown), please send me
mail.

--
Narciso Jaramillo       nj@arpa.Berkeley.EDU      "helloi"--mus' be my "eggo".