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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: sci fic paperback graphics
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1991 22:09:59 GMT

In article <91Jun9.131732edt.18823@me.utoronto.ca> sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun) writes:
>There is a novel series co-authored by Paul Preuss and Arthur C. Clarke
[...]
>Does anyone know on what computer-graphics package were these graphics
>drawn?

[speculation follows.]

Clarke is a big proponent of the Amiga, so I would tend to guess an
A2000 or A3000.  There are several hot-shot 3d modeling packages for
the Amiga, each at a hundred or three dollars, they all generate
wire-frames or simple renders of some sort.

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