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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!) and single frame recording
Keywords: 3D, animation, single frame recording
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Date: 17 Aug 90 14:02:57 GMT
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In article <1990Aug16.192440.23809@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>Did anyone see the animation made with LightWave?  How was it?
>(I didn't get a chance to see it.)

There were two animations running that were produced with lightwave.
One was a remake of "Rush Hour" (originally done with VideoScape 3D)
and the was "Flying Chrome Teapots" or someting like that. Rush Hour
looked pretty good except for the tower that gets shot by the
attacking helicopters, it was in bad need of antialiasing. The other
animation was a teapot spinning toward the camera with a relection
map of the background applied to it making it look like chrome. There 
were 3 or 4 different backgrounds. This animation looked like it was
done in the low-res rendering mode (probably to get it out in time
for the show) although I could be mistaken. The effect was nice but it
had a jagged look to it. Note that that LightWave does not create
RAM animations like other 3D packages. Niether the Amiga or Toaster
is currently capable of real-time 24bit page-flip animation (VERY few
machines are, Silicon Graphics can't do it). Animations must be single
framed to a suitable recording medium. Which brings up a question:

Is anyone out there currently using an Abekas A60 video disk recorder
for single framing their Amiga animations. I would be very interested
to here from you if own, rent, or use an A60. I am particularly interested
in a comparison between it and single-frame capable VCRs as well as
cost of use.
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