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From: amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid)
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Subject: Re: Imagine
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Vista-Pro creates 3d objects which represent both real places and imaginary
fractal landscapes (altho you can "fractalize" the real scapes if desired).
As I mentioned it is fully imagine compatible..for 3D landscapes I have
seen nothing that even comes close..this comes under the heading of
"virtual reality"..for instance using this data you could create a 
helicopter flight over one of Saturns moons (this is included w/ program).

Explaining my problem w/ imagine inthe bird bath example..you can think
of it in three parts, the water, the basin and the base (tho the basin and
base are actually one object).  As I was saying, when the water in the
basin ripples, the BASE has changes in colorizing.  As the bird bath
itself has NO transparency/filtering..it should pass NO light when
light is cast on it from above..but as I mentioned the lamp shine on the
rippling water and somehow appears to travel through my "stone" birdbath
to reach the base of the bird bath.  

I'm  happy to send out some of my Imagine objects..I just have *no* 
familiarity with ftp or bit ftp or whatever..I'm new to this whole
Internet stuff.  I'll send stuff via disk (compressed using lhrc)
if you send a disk.  Just send E-mail to arrange.  Also would send
out Imagine anims if they'll fit in compressed format on a diskette.