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From: her@compel.UUCP (Helge Egelund Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Imagine
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Date: 19 Dec 90 10:00:40 GMT
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amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:

[Description of nice scene with bird bath and rippled water]
>center ..BUT..  the BASE of the birdbath changes hues during the ripple
>effect..as if the reflections from the water were bouncing off some ceiling
>(ther is no ceiling) or as if the bottom of the bird bath basin were 
>translucent (it is not) or as if some how the ripple effect were connected
>to the base of the bird bath object (it is not).  This is WEIRD.

I'm not sure that I understand this, are you saying that the COLOR of the 
bottom of the basin is changing depending of the form of the surface of
the basin (ie. the water)??
This would either indicate that Imagine is so advanced that it can handle
different indices of refraction for different wavelenghts (of the light
not the water :-). Or it would indicate a bug.
I don't think that the first case is true, so it may be a bug :-(
What colors do you get on the bottom?

>On the good news front..Vista-Pro objects are completely compatible with
>imagine..save out as silver object and import directly to Imagine.  The
>coloring is all retained when you go into imagine (yay!)

Vista-Pro is the fractal landscape generator which contains real landscapes
isn't it?
Is it good? useful? Cheap?

>One other item..the explode f/x works splendidly even with very large
>objects like a 180k object file of Mount St. Hellens (ka-boom!).

THAT I'd like to see! Could you mail it to me, or maybe even better post it
or place it somewhere ftp'able??
(Unfortunately, I haven't direct ftp access, but I could use BITFTP if 
neccessary)

What about creating an Imagine object database somewhere?
I've got some converted TS and Sculpt objects which others could be interested
in, and I know that I would be interested in nearly any object that I could
put my hands on!!

Helge
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