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From: mark@masscomp.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Siggraph Report?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 12:20:57 GMT
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n article <1990Aug11.022017.29661@agate.berkeley.edu> eddiewen@ocf.berkeley.edu
 (Eddie Wen) writes:
>Hey, has anyone gotten back from Siggraph?  Any word of Hash Enterprise's
>JourneyMan, supposedly debut.

Well I saw it and was quite impressed. The ease with which it allowed
control over the objects and their motion was stunning. Everything
is spline based (say goodbye to polygons.....good riddance). As an
example of how to build spline surface objects, Ken Baer built a spherical
blob by doing the following: make a circular hoop. Duplicate it a few
times and rotate each successive hoop a little from the previous one.
Then join them all together at the top and bottom. You now have a solid
spline surface spherical blob. You can then move any of the control points
to distort it as you please or add more control points if you like.
He also demonstrated the ease of specifying the movement and motion
path for a spline shark. It was totally trivial to make the shark twist
and bend its body while while swimming in and out between a logo.
The only current weakness I see in the program is its renderer. Although
it produces adequite results, there are not the mind-blowing features
of LightWave 3D. Ken said that was planned for future upgrades. I had
mentioned it would be nice to use Jouneyman for the modeler and animator
while sending the rendering task to LightWave 3D. He said there had been
some discussion about that but no real plans had been formulated. Anyway,
it looked like a great product and I was so excited, I forgot to ask when
it would hit the streets (however I got the impression it will be quite soon).
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|  mark@westford.ccur.com                                                  |
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