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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Journeyman V1.1 (was Re: Imagine)
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Date: 20 Dec 90 18:52:40 GMT
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In article <6420@crash.cts.com> bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from baer@qiclab.uucp
>Ken,
>What about a demo version of Journeyman?  Most of us are VERY interested in
>your product but we don't want to plunk down $500 of hard earned cash on a
>product we've never seen and can't get a demo on.

I couldn't agree more!

Well I just got off the phone with someone at Hash Enterprises so
here is the latest I know about Journeyman. It has already been
discussed that Jman uses spline patches rather than polygons. But
the latest version directly renders these patches rather than
internally converting to polygons. This allows for scene complexity
not achieveable with any other 3D package as well as eliminating
the rough silohette produced by polygonally interpolated surfaces.
Scenes that would require 300,000 polygons are easily handled by
Jman without the normally associated memory burden. Also, as Ken
Baer mentioned, the animation capabilities have been greatly expanded.

In the rendering realm, both scanline and ray-tracing are possible.
Surface textures that are available include wave, fractal noise,
algorithmic (bricks, check, etc), bump, and image mapping. You can also
add specular reflection, shadows, and transparency. These are all
available regardless of rendering mode. When ray-tracing, you add
true reflections, crisper shadow generation, hairy surfaces,
transparency mapping, and other features. I don't know why you
can't do transparency mapping in scanline mode, but the hairy surfaces
sounds great.

A demo disk is supposedly in the making but not yet available and there
is still no printed literature. I was told that if you have access to
P-LINK they have many demo images and animations as well as a product
description. Would someone like to grab these and either post them or
upload them to an ftp site? The program costs $500 and it is still
only available through Hash Enterprises (rather annoying).

Hash can be reached at (206) 573-9427
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