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From: schur@venera.ISI.EDU (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mimetics Mega Paint (was: Looking for a high resolution graphics b
Message-ID: <14701@venera.ISI.EDU>
Date: 25 Aug 90 16:13:18 GMT
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Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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Yes, the prospect of a 24-bit paint program for the Mimetics board does sound
good. However, I have spoken to them extensively to get the low-down on this
program and it is cumbersome at best. You can only paint with it on the amiga
monitor. You have the choice of either painting in black & white (!!?!!) or
working on a limited, magnified portion of the picture, a little at a time. 
From what I understand, for the black & white mode, you assign colors to 
shades of grey and work that way. In either case you have to work on the 
picture a bit, send it back out to the framebuffer to view it in composite,
work on it, send it back out, etc. No real time 24-bit painting. Quite
disappointing if you asked me.

I know that we are ALL frustrated and fed up with the NewTek/Video Toaster
situation. But, I just spoke with them and the Toaster now INCLUDES for the
same price a 24-bit paint program (similar interface to Digipaint 3) AND a
new raytracing program called LightWave. Supposedly LightWave will put the
WaveFront software to shame. It has motion blur, real smoke and fog, etc.

I don't know how much I trust the NewTek claims at this point, but this new
information puts a little more spark in the Toaster ashes for me.

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