Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!henry!hairston From: hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Wanted: Energiser Bunny! Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 90 16:08:16 GMT References: <749@taniwha.UUCP> <18996@netcom.UUCP> <4816@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <4837@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Gaia II Lines: 34 In-reply-to: bskendig@glasses.Princeton.EDU's message of 19 Dec 90 04:48:44 GMT [bskendig@glasses.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:] [] ... {stuff deleted} ... [] When you trigger a machine, the Energizer Bunny -- a three-inch-high [] fuzzy pink rabbit with black sunglasses and a big bass drum -- will [] move across the bottom of the victim's monitor. It's a digitized [] image, and it flips back and forth between a shot of the bunny holding [] its drumstick ready to boom, and a shot of the bunny hitting the drum [] -- simple animation. [] [] And there are plenty of caveats! Since the NetBunny is color, it only [] runs on a Macintosh with a color display; I assume you much have more [] ... {more stuff deleted} ... hmmm, sounds like the bunny is still in alpha. a question: why not go the next step and make the bunny a cicn? this way you could simply use PlotCIcon and also support B&W machines. also, the sound may be nice but (just my opinion folks) the bunny may be easier to swallow if it just appeared, silently. it's funny on tv, but in the office is a different story ... however you've got to fix those incompatibilities (those Energizer folks would be fools to pass up on the free advertising). the danger here is that innocent pranksters will cause havoc unintentionally if things crash as mentioned. ps: since you're using a copied image the legal issues are real but you could also avoid the hassle by altering the imagery a bit or two ... -dave- hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu "still going ..."