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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Animation in Engineering
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.232053.24004@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 23:20:53 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.103442.21794@uservx.afwl.af.mil> galetti@uservx.afwl.af.mil writes:
>> Qestion:  Isn't Amiga more well suited for this than a workstation or an
>>           PC-DOS (?) system?
>
>Well, of course it is!  Many people complain about the Amiga's lack of 
>built-in 24-bit color, or VGA compatibility, etc., but these same limitations
>allow the Amiga to have a higher bandwidth to the video memory, making the
>Amiga the BEST personal computer for animation, IMHO.  Check out a recent 
>thread in comp.sys.mac.programmer:  "Can the Mac really do animation?"  Well,
>in short, doing animation on a Mac is worse than pulling teeth.  As I read 
>through all the problems that Mac programmers have doing animation, I soon
>realized that the Amiga really is best for animation.  The IBM PC is perhaps
>a little easier to use for animation, but most PC animations I've seen aren't
>as fast or as smooth as stock A-500s running demos.  Hopefully people who
>use animation, such as these CAD people, will someday realize this, but my
>hopes aren't real high.
>  ___________________________________________________________________________
> /   Ralph Galetti                  Internet:   galetti@uservx.afwl.af.mil   \
>|    PL/LITT                        Interests:  computers, music, computers   |
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Well, I don't know... business people are stuck on  IBM but I am not so sure
about engineers.  Engineers are are a very 'honest' crowd.  (I've read that
engineering is the most honest profession.)  I also think engineers are 
more orientated to change, especially technological change. ...I mean, they
are exposed to a lot of it.  About every other lecture I attend the prof.
will reminisce about the way things were done in his day or even about how
things were done just ten years ago.  Engineers are prepared for change and
even expect change  ...much more so than people in business.

And I doubt that software like WALKTHRU would need a lot of colors.  Most 
of what is changed by the owner is changed after he walks thru a building
or structure during construction ...before any painting or carpeting or
anything like that.  You could animate in 16 colors and then maybe have
cetain perspectives fully rendered with plants, furniture, people, etc.
Besides, it would be to much work to fully paint, decorate, and people
an entire model. ...although the model might be used by an interior 
decorator.   

You know, time is a very imporant in construction.  Even a small commercial
building will cost an owner two million dollars.  And until that building is
occupied, it sits there and cost the owner interest on his money.  For two
million dollars, that's nearly a thousand dollars per working day.   


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