Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!) and single frame recording Keywords: 3D, animation, single frame recording Message-ID: <7789@gollum.twg.com> Date: 20 Aug 90 20:15:22 GMT References: <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> <1990Aug15.184117.16528@qiclab.uucp> <1990Aug16.192440.23809@lavaca.uh.edu> <45993@masscomp.ccur.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 26 In article <45993@masscomp.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes: > ...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: The DCTV (Digital Creations TV (forget what TV stands for)) is capable of doing 24bit page-flip animation out of a standard Amiga. 'course it's not on the market yet so it doesn't count. It does this by compressing the pictures using some funky encoding technique similar-in-concept-to the Black Belt scheme. Decoding is done in an external box that also doubles as a 24bit/pixel video digitizer. The resulting frames are the same size as normal ILBM frames and can (so long as no IFF purists are in the room) be put in place of normal ILBM frames and animated from something like Deluxe Paint III. It works! It was being demonstrated at FAUG in May (I think)! -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!