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Subject: Re: What are asa, bwmovie, byteyears, clap, seal, ship?
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Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 21:37:07 EST
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Clap is a rendering language done primarily by Rob Pike.  The manual
begins,
 "Clap is a language for putting interesting things on the other
  side of color CRTs.  The language is largely declarative; it
  is used to define, orient, and place objects in space, rather
  than move them.... The units of the language are numbers,
  triples [points, RGB values], transformations, surfaces, objects,
  lights, and a camera."
Objects include the interesting quadrics, and surfaces have a variety
of optical properties.

The major work in the genre is a ~1min movie of a dancing robot.
(The lack of movement was finessed by an undocumented inbetweening program.)

I think that finishes off the question except for bwmovie.
Probably it is one of several animation programs for the 5620 DMD,
but I can't track it down.

	Dennis Ritchie