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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac/Toaster
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.061343.25357@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 91 06:13:43 GMT
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gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>From article <1991Jun26.054226.10584@neon.Stanford.EDU>, by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
>> Have you had a look at Stratavision 2.0 for the Mac?  Far more powerful than
>> Swivel-3D - includes nice things like radiosity rendering.

>Yes, I've seen it.  I didn't count it as a true mac program, because
>it was ported from another platform.  

  Really?  What other platform?  Stratavision is written in Apple's
MacApp object-based environment using Object Pascal.  It's certainly
a fully featured Mac-interface [in fact, in 2.0, it has the nicest
environment I've seen on almost any Mac program].

>But it is nothing short of
>lovely.  Very nice, but exceeds my needs.  And it lacks in a few
>features that are in Swivel-3d, I think.  Joints, parent/child
>links... a few others.  

  Strata 2.0 does have parent/child links, but it doesn't seem to have
the same emphasis on jointed/linked features as Swivel-3d.  Strata
does have some nifty things like interpolation between key-frames, 
including texture-interpolation.

>Stratavision has many things that the others
>don't, but lacks things that the other high-end ones do.

  Stratavision is primarily a high-end scene renderer [or as Strata calls it, 
a CAV tool - Computer Aided Visualisation].  For that sort of work, it's hard
to beat.




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