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From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 5 May 91 21:28:10 GMT
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In article <1991May5.185506.5004@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991May05.171856.13398@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>>In article <&i4Gzkv*1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>>
>>>How much animation do you want?  The NeXT is very
>>>capable of doing some now.
>>>
>>You should see all the articles and advertisements for animation software
>>in my engineering magazines!  Animation will be a big market.
>>
>>                                       NCW
>
>	That's funny. What frame-rate can you get? 5fps? Will
>programmers have to work around postscript to get a decent rate?
>	-- Ethan

I've seen Mathematica animations on the Next which are clearly
faster than 5 fps (4 gray levels, perhaps 400 x 400 res.), so I think
Ethan's guess is way off the mark...does anyone have some actual figures?
Are there any animation packages out there for Next?

I'm curious...what is the maximum frame rate that can be acheived on the
Amiga, and how does this speed compare to other platforms, assuming the
same resolution and number of bit-planes? I know that I have seen some
excellent HAM animations on an A2000 that seemed reasonably fast, say about
20 fps, but nothing that really blazed.  As a parallel question, what is
the maximum frame-rate for animations where the frames are not in memory,
but being read from disk during the animation?
     
BTW, my (limited) experience is that animation already is a big market in
engineering; most CAD/FEM/rendering packages have animation capabilities
already. 

-- 
Don DeVoe                       
ddev@wam.umd.edu