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From: ccplumb@watnot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Very Vivid,500,2000
Message-ID: <12852@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 12:38:27 EST
Article-I.D.: watnot.12852
Posted: Sat Apr 11 12:38:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 03:53:07 EST
References: <437@inria.UUCP> <9895@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: watmath!watnot!ccplumb (Colin Plumb)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy) says (in <9895@aero.ARPA>):
>In article <437@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes:
>>I saw a demo from Very Vivid soft called The Mandala.
>>I have no words to describe it: it is plainly fantastic.
>
>I sure hope that some one on the net creates something like this, with source,
>and gets it on a Fish Disk.

If you can, great!, but you're not gonna catch *me* trying.
(Also, that demo you saw is 2 disks executable+data.  It might not
fit on `a' Fish disk. :-))

First of all, it requires a real-time (at least 30 frames/sec) video
frame grabber.  This is the easy part. VV is working on a one-bitplane
one that goes 60 frames/sec.  They hope to get it down to $300.

Secondly, the Mandala is a *lot* of work.  I heard 2 years
solid programming, and some number before that designing it.
Do you have that much spare time?
--
	-Colin Plumb (watmath!ccplumb)

Silly quote:
There's going to be hell and high water to pay.