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From: meekins@dragon.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy lee meekins)
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Subject: Re: Wings (was:Re: GS/OS Reording)
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Date: 29 Jan 91 17:18:20 GMT
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In article <43371@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>In article <28463.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle> lhaider@pro-beagle.cts.com (Laer Haider) writes:
>>In-Reply-To: message from ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
>>
>>[...snip]
>>>I do agree with you that Copy II+ isn't really that great, but I've seen
>>>reviews of Prosel (and I'm thinking of buying it very soon) and it seems
>>>to be much better than NU.
>>
>>You can't go wrong.  You get several hundred dollars of utility for about
>>$55.  I started with ProSel 8 and haven't turned back yet.  Yea, I look
>>at all the fancy new file selectors; but having all that power immediately
>>available in ProSel 16 makes them all seem wimpy.  There is one small
>>selector that has promise...  Take a look at ZLanch from Zavtra Software.
>>It ain't finished yet, but it looks slick as snot so far.  :)
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Thanks, I think (re: snot) :)

>Eeew!! :-)
>
>OK, I'll take a look at ZLaunch...
>
>BTW, I finally got a chance to look at the Software Experience Demo.
>It looks great! I got a question tho'... if it ran at 60fps originally
>(unTranswarped), why does it only run at 30 now?

The actual animation of the "Z" can be performed in a fraction of a screen
update. If the GS could update the screen in 1/200 of second, It could 
probably rotate that fast, of course, you'd never be able to distinguish the
"Z" from the blur. :)

But then I added that line of scrolling text along the top, which takes an
entire 1/60 of second to scroll, thus not leaving enough cycles left in
one screen update for the "Z", thusly, I've split the demo into alternating
frames. On even frames the "Z" is drawn followed by the "II Infinitum" 
message along the bottom, and on odd frames, the text along the top is
scrolled.

By pressing the keys 0-3 on the keyboard, you can actually see how much time
each section is spending. You'll notice that the scrolling text takes up
almost an entire screen updatem whereas rotating the "Z" does not.

For more information about the animation and timing information, the source
code for TSE is availbale FTP at tybalt.caltech.edu.


COMING SOON!!

==> Z3D <==

Realtime 3D graphics for the GS.

>
>
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