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From: Radagast@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall)
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Subject: Re: 24 bit board comparisons
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Date: 9 Dec 90 08:02:20 GMT
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Let's try to keep this to one conference, okay?

>Wrong!  The Video Toaster from NewTek does animation.  I saw
>forty minutes of INCREDIBLE demonstration of a Toaster last
>night.  Included was the animation of a ship moving from
>a distant perspective to a close perspective.  It was
>*really* nice compared to the amount of work I've watched
>friends put into VideoScape 3D and Promotion and a handful
>of other animation packages.

The Video Toaster does not do animation.  The recording device
for the animation you undoubtably saw is a single frame recorder.
Being able to produce one frame at a time for animation is not
what I consider "doing animation."

                           -Sullivan_-_Segall (a.k.a. Radagast)
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