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From: philip@dalcsug.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 22:07:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 22:07:39 1987
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Reply-To: philip@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip)
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Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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Keywords: cost

>I own an Amiga, I love my Amiga, and I am working on making it a viable
>low-end film tool. Any technique which takes an hour/frame however is
>never gonna be of use for film production. Period.
>
>Jeff Kesselman
>uwvax!puff!upl
>upl@puff.cs.wisc.edu

I agree, but the Amiga has a definite niche in the market as a low cost
video machine (makes a great character generator) but has anyone been using 
the Amiga for film production using frame by frame ray tracing?  I would 
think that a good 3d modeling/animation program would be a more viable
approach, considering the time required for ray-tracing.  Are there currently
any such packages for the Amiga?  The new program by Aegis (described in 
Amazing Computing) looks good, but is it vapourware??

Peter Philip
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia

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