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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Modulae demo from FTA
Keywords: Apple IIGS Modulae demo FTA
Message-ID: <13715@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Aug 90 21:50:09 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL), APG, MD.
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On some of the information services (Genie and AOL, not sure about CIS),
there is a new demo from FTA available for downloading; although it takes
well over an hour to download, it is so spectacular that you may want to
do it anyway.  If you thought the Nucleus demo was nifty, well this one
goes well beyond that.  For example, you can rotate polygonal objects IN
REAL TIME with hidden-surface removal!  This is something that people
normally think requires a Silicon Graphics Iris or equivalent.  With
continuous background sound it is actually niftier.  (The lighting model
is fixed to the object description, not the view, but as the demo shows
this isn't all that big a loss.)

I wish these guys would release their source code, and an English
translation of the IIGS programming book they seem to rely on..