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From: baer@qiclab.uucp (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Imagine
Summary: clearing up misconceptions about Journeyman
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.004954.23577@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 19 Dec 90 00:49:54 GMT
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Organization: Animators Anonymous, Portland, OR.
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In article <37016@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) writes:
>With journeyman..can you ray-trace these spline patches?

Yes, you can.  In fact, with the currently shipping version, it does true
patch intersection with both the ray tracer and the scanline renderer.
The 1.0 version tesselated the patched into polygons at rendertime.  It
no longer does this, so reasonable complex scenes can render in 3Megs,
very complex scenes can render in 5Megs.  

> I saw its
>predecessor and the anims looked like scupt's "paining" 32 color mode.

Journeyman's predecessor was Animation:Apprentice, the first 3D animation
program to be released on the Amiga.  It's 4 years old, and used 
topological modeling (voxels).  It was not patch based, and supported
all Amiga standard display modes.  Some of the character animation concepts
proved to be very valuable, and are in Journeyman.  But nothing related
to modeling and rendering in Apprentice is in Journeyman.  

Journeyman is 24-bit based and supports interlaced-HAM and IFF24 output.
And the new renderer in Version 1.1 is very clean.  I'd suggest you look
at the real thing, and not judge Journeyman on 4 year old software based
on a different technology.

>Not to take away from the neat organic animation abilities of Journeyman..
>I just think Journeyman and Imagine are like apples and oranges..not
>comparable.  

I think can compare them, but they are designed for different applications.
Journeyman is designed for organic character animation that uses lots of
fluid motion and morphing.  Imagine concentrated more on logo and mechanical
object creation.


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