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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 9 May 91 20:44:13 GMT
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In article <1991May5.212810.28755@wam.umd.edu> ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) writes:
>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
>

>20 fps, but nothing that really blazed.  As a parallel question, what is

  I think 30 fps is rather common, and I have seen as much as 60 fps. The
ANIM format is very efficient, although it is going to be improved somehow
when faster chips are available i.e. 25 mhz standard. Most Amigas are still
lurking at 8 mhz, although not necesarily those that do animations.

>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 


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           David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
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