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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics package w/ 3d capacity.
Message-ID: <20422@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 22:51:06 GMT
References: <11503@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <11503@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> drichard@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (David Richards) writes:
>
>The local cluster of amiga-philes is very close to convincing influential
>members of the math faculty that the Amiga is the ideal machine for handling
>the complex graphical manipulation of mathematically generated 3d objects.

>Wire fram graphics would certainly be acceptable.  We're working mostly 
>with graphs and such so we don't have much use for ray tracing.  

	Calagari (I think there's a "junior" version) does real-time
wire-frame viewing, with an easily changable point of view via mouse.
It will also render (shaded) the object quickly.  May be a bit pricey or
overkill.  I suspect several object editors will do the job also.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult."
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