Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.applications:1020 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:1452
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucsd!nosc!crash!hrlaser
From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Spectracolor
Keywords: Graphics, animation
Message-ID: <1991May20.033733.22324@crash.cts.com>
Date: 20 May 91 03:37:33 GMT
References: <1991May19.065210.11782@news.iastate.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 39

In article <1991May19.065210.11782@news.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes:
>
>     O.K.  I've downloaded the Spectracolor demo from AB20.  Looks nice.  I've
>got a couple of questions though, perhaps someone could answer.
>
>	1)  Is it possible to open the program in an interlaced mode or does
>	    HAM prevent that?
>
>	2)  Doesn't Spectracolor allow you to map pictures onto objects,
>	    or am I thinking of a different program?
>
>Maybe I'll think of some more later...
>
>				--George
>-- 
>George L. Skank			|Fast cars, fast women, fast computers...   ///
>Senior, Electrical Engineering	|Amiga!					   ///
>Iowa State University, Ames, IA	|				      \\\ ///
>skank@iastate.edu		|Phone: (515) 233-2165		       \\X//


The demo should have a menu selection for "screen mode" to let you
switch to interlace, and turn overscan on or off. 

No you can't really map pictures to objects. Spectra color is a paint
program not a 3-D rendering program. It doesn't know from "objects" - 
however it has brush "wrapping" features and specular highlighting
features with which you could take an IFF picture and "wrap" it around
a sphere or a cylinder or a cube and put a hot spot that dithers out
across the "object" and do some fairly convincing pseudo-3d stuff
this way. 

Spectra Color is actually the next generation of Photon Paint, except
the authors (Bazbosoft) took their code to Oxxi, whereas it was
formerly published by Microillusions.  The two programs are very
close in overall functionality except Spectra Color adds animated
brushes and better overall control of making HAM animations.

BOTH programs *ONLY* output HAM pictures or anims.