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From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH -- The REAL show stopper. was Re: VideoScape 3D Review
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 10:39:57 EDT
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In article <922@hp-sdd.HP.COM> nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) writes:
>In article <831@percival.UUCP> baer@percival.pdx.com (Ken Baer) writes:
>
>>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.
>
>See what I mean???  Yet another poster who thinks that Leo came up with
>the idea all by his lonesome.  (And Doyle wonders why PIXAR is pissed).
>The idea of the unicycle came from PIXAR.  Leo get's an "A" for implementation
>energy.  Creativity energy credit goes to PIXAR.

Are you really so sure???  It seem to me that there have been unicycles
and clowns around for hundreds of years.  There have also been games with
clowns riding unicycles... "Clowns".  The fact that PIXAR also ripped off
the clown on a unicycle image does not give them sole rights to it!

Hans