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From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Journeyman V1.1 (was Re: Imagine)
Message-ID: <1990Dec24.182631.26700@CAM.ORG>
Date: 24 Dec 90 18:26:31 GMT
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bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) writes:

>In-Reply-To: message from mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com

>One thing you don't find out about products such as Imagine are the memory
>constraints until AFTER you purchase it and try doing a real project.  I
>thought it would be a simple matter to take a flat hi-res dpaintIII image of
>the continents, convert it to an ILBM, extrude it and face it with Imagine.  I
>find that 5 megs of memory doesn't cut it however.  If and when I ever get
>faces on my object, I will then conform it to a sphere, add a blue sphere
>inside of the continents and spin the sucker!  Of course my project involves
>quite a bit more than that.  I am somewhat stuck at this point until I can
>beg, borrow or steal another couple of megs.  I suppose I can just fill up my
>8-up with 1-meg simms and go but it seems odd that I can't do the above with 5
>megs of memory.

	When does the problem arise? When you're converting or when
	you use the boolean function? I would assume it's when you
	use the booleans. 5megs isn't alot and until you can beg
	borrow or steal more, why not start with a lower resolution
	DPIII pic?                                                  
	I remember speaking to Mike Halvorson some time back. I was
	begging for more powerful features similar to these and
	he expressed concern at that time that most users wouldn't
	be able to use them as they didn't have loads of ram and
	fpu's.(at that time I, myself, only had 3megs and no fpu).
	But times have changed. Loads of ram, 030's and fpu's are
	becoming the norm. If you want to work with the more
	powerful features you really, really need ram.
cya -steve


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