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From: neighorn@percival.UUCP (Steve Neighorn)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: Movie BYU
Message-ID: <220@percival.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 04:10:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 20 04:10:09 1986
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In article <756@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> farhad@Shasta.UUCP (Farhad Pezeshgi) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am a new user so bear with me.
>
>I would like to find some info about Movie BYU. I would appriciate any info
>that you might have about its performance and also how one can get a copy of
>it.
>
>	Thank You.
>			Farhad.(Please send it to me personally).
>
>  Please post answers to this question - Plasma's Director saw the results
>of this program in Japan & would like us to explore it a little - he
>was very impressed
>
>     Hurf Sheldon			Arpa.css: Hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu
>     Lab of Plasma Studies	
>     369 Upson Hall			phone: 607 255 7267
>     Cornell University
>     Ithaca, N.Y. 14853

During my senior year at Portland State University, I brought up MOVIE.BYU
on the school's VAX 11/780 (4.2BSD) using a Tektronix 4107 terminal.  The
movie.byu system includes many nice features such as multiple light
sources, hidden-line removal, contour shading, letter construction, 3-D
support, anti-aliasing, etc. I realize that most of these are pretty
standard on graphics software these days, but my reason for working with
the package was to 1) get experience bringing someone elses software up
on another computer, 2) write terminal drivers given input specifications,
3) create additional documentation for general users on the PSU computer,
and 4) take a long hard educational look at the source code.

My experiences with the system and the people at BYU are very good. When I
had technical questions I was usually able to get a response from someone
down in Utah. The sources have *some* commenting, and the documentation that
comes with each program is enough to get you started using them and get
a feeling for the interdependacies between each part of the system.

I would be glad to send you names, addresses, phone numbers, additional
information on MOVIE.BYU if you would like. I'm only an email away...


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Steven C. Neighorn               tektronix!reed!percival!qiclabs!neighorn
Portland Public Schools      "Where we train young Star Fighters to defend the
(503) 249-2000 ext 229           frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada"