Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!ddev From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: AMIGA Message-ID: <1991May6.181052.18288@wam.umd.edu> Date: 6 May 91 18:10:52 GMT References: <1991May5.185506.5004@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May5.212810.28755@wam.umd.edu> <1991May6.115535.8982@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 43 Nntp-Posting-Host: vs04epsl In article <1991May6.115535.8982@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991May5.212810.28755@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes: >> I'm curious...what is the maximum frame rate that can be acheived on the >> Amiga, > >60 FPS, of course! > Is that really the *maximum* that can be acheived, or just the max. supported by Amiga animation software? >> 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? > >60 FPS, again. > >> BTW, my (limited) experience is that animation already is a big market in >> engineering; most CAD/FEM/rendering packages have animation capabilities >> already. > >Yes, I've seen the best they can do: Autodesk Animator. Pretty proimitive >compared to what's available on the Amiga. I agree, for the most part. Imagine, for example, has animation capabilities that are superior to more expensive packages on Macs and IBMs (although this seems to be changing; If you have a chance, check out Macromind's new animation package, or better yet Stratvision's animation module). Also, remember that there is more out there than just Autocad (whose animation capabilities I am not familiar with)...the point is that animation *is* a big market in engineering, but it's use seems to be limited to integrated packages (FEM+animation, CAD+animation, etc...). I doubt that the amiga will find its way into use for engineering animation applications without integrated packages that include animation capabilities. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. -- Don DeVoe ddev@wam.umd.edu