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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Re: Journeyman V1.1 (was Re: Imagine)
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Date: 22 Dec 90 03:51:00 GMT
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In article <1990Dec21.183353.13714@qiclab.uucp> baer@qiclab.uucp (Ken Baer) writes:
>And we should start seeing some JMan animation from CalArts soon, since
>they are planning to teach a course with it.

Great.  CalArts is about *the* school for animation...

>We personalize the software for
>every customer,

What does this mean in reality?  (Here's a chance for free publicity
on the net. :-)  I have a Polaroid Palette and a Mimetics FrameBuffer/Grabber
for video/hardcopy output.  Would I get a copy of Journeyman that would
write directly to my framebuffer?  I'm kinda pissed since newer products
are magically bound to the framebuffer their owning company makes.
Impulse only generates IFF and Firecracker images, for example.  Mimetics
claims that Sculpt supports their product, but SA4D Jr. certainly doesn't,
and I can't get S3D (ver 1.0d?) to do anything with it either.  (If
I'm doing something wrong, somebody please tell me.)  I'd be almost
willing to cough up $500 based on a quickie demo at SIGGRAPH and a
promise of Mimetics support.

One more question -- how free are you with the description of the
object format?  I'm trying to decide what format to finalize my raytracer
on (I use NFF currently, quick and dirty :-).  S3D formats don't seem
to support parametrics or beziers, what about Journeyman?

Again, this message is based soley on my experiences.  If anybody thinks
I'm saying something wrong, feel free to correct me.

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