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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Incognito, etc.
Message-ID: <4810@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 23:23:52 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.205224.4808@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
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In article <1991Jan23.205224.4808@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@frith.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes:
:
:I picked up Opticks by Incognito software at a nice price.  I remember
:hearing that Incognito went out of business.  Is this true, or were
:they consumed by another company?  The phone number they give in the
:manual had a (313) area code, which is SouthEast Michigan/Detroit
:area.  (I don't want to call right now.)  The manual also said to send
:in a registration card, but there was none in the package.  If
:Incognito is still around in any way, shape, or form, please let me
:know.
:
:As far as my first impressions of the package, it seems to be fairly
:well put together.  The manual seems [mind you, this is at first
:glance] friendly, but has no in-depth sections or sections on specific
:techniques.  It does have sections about what makes color, how factor X
:affects surface Y, reflection, refraction, etc., etc., etc., which
:looks like interesting and may even be helpful.  In one of the
:appendicies, it has the format of the object files.  I could probably
:use this to write a program to convert files to & from DKBTrace...
:
:Looks like it will be fairly easy to create objects.  It has an
:object/scene editor that appears, if only at first glance, complete.
:
:I like how it draws a line-drawing of the picture before beginning the
:ray tracing.
:
:All in all, the program in fairly slow -- slower, I'd say, than
:DKBTrace.  It does, though, allow you to render at many different
:resolutions.
:
:Even if Incognito is out of business, the program was worth the $20.00
:bargain bin price the computer store had it for.  Someone let me know
:about Incognito, okay?

Icognito is, indeed, out of business. I used to beta-test their BBS
software called Atredes, now known as Skyline. I would imagine that
ownership of the software has reverted back to it's author as was the
case with Skyline, so that would be the best avenue to follow up on.

					--Moriland



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