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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH -- The REAL show stopper. was Re: VideoScape 3D Review
Message-ID: <831@percival.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 14:48:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: percival.831
Posted: Tue Aug  4 14:48:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 01:13:34 EDT
References: <1097@gryphon.CTS.COM> <915@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Reply-To: baer@percival.pdx.com (Ken Baer)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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Keywords: NewTek

In article <915@hp-sdd.HP.COM> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
>In article <1097@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdow@pnet02.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) writes:
>>Ah well - after all his complaints about the userface of VS3D he sure provided
>>us with a show stopper at SIGGRAPH, didn't he? 700K of anim file, 96 frames of
>>a unicycle juggling three balls as the viewpoint circled the stage. It shows
>>that for all the human interface problems VS3D can sure do some nice stuff.
>
>The REAL show stopper at the Commodore Amiga booth at SIGGRAPH was the girl 
>doing the MAX HEADROOM-type video for DigiView.
>
>I'm sure everyone who was at SIGGRAPH will agree with me on this one.

Well, it was cute for a while, but I got a little tired of hearing 'Welcome
to NewTek!"  I thought the Maxine Headroom was a cute demo, but the concept
isn't exactly earth-shattering.  The novelty of Leo's Juggling unicycle was
that it was up on the monitors so quickely.  I'd just seen Red's Dream the
night before at it's first SIGGRAPH screeni.  I went by the Amiga booth
the next morning and saw the juggling unicycle and did an immediate double-
take.  Then I saw Leo's name on it, OF COURSE!  I think this demo was actually
better than Maxine because of the creative energy that went into it.  That's
what sets the Amiga apart from some of the other vendors at the show.  The
Apple booth sure didn't have that kind of energy.

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