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From: matt@ace4.sps.mot.com (matthew noell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Real time animation
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Date: 10 Apr 91 02:20:05 GMT
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Dear Netters,

I am looking for a way to animate large bitmaps and record this to video tape.
What I would like to know is what are the possible solutions?
Any information that anyone can provide would be great.

So far I have been looking at the NeXTdimension because it has the
necessary VCR connector and a data compression/decompression chip along with
the Intel i860 chip on the graphics board.  NeXT says they can display
30 frames/sec.  I have seen the NeXT display live video from a camcorder
but not anything using bitmaps stored on disk and displayed in rapid
succession.  However, the problem with the NeXT is that I am not sure about
where NeXT will be in the future.  I would like to be able to get
the same capabilities I am looking for in something other than a NeXT
with maybe a third party add-in board.

Thanks in advance,
Matt Noell


Matthew Noell     	                               Motorola, Inc.
Technology Simulation                                  APRDL, MS K10
Advanced Products Research & Development Laboratory    3501 Ed Bluestein Blvd.
Semiconductor Technology Group                         Austin, Texas 78721