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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga at Siggraph
Message-ID: <1195@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 03:42:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 03:42:51 1987
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In article <877@osu-cgrg.UUCP> spencer@osu-cgrg.UUCP (Steve Spencer) writes:
>
>I heard all about Leo's demo from a friend who had the $$$ to attend.
>I have a question, though, that he wasn't able to answer: was the demo
>running on a vanilla Amiga or was there a Turbo tower backing this amazing
>piece of animation up?  My friend said that there were wires going all over
>the exhibit behind the machines and so he couldn't tell.
>
>
Aw right some history: at the show the demo was a 96 frame circular animation
meaning it could loop indefinately and seamlessly. It showed a black background
with a yellow (slightly the worse for aliasing) circus ring. The ring had a
red star in it. Inside the star you had a unicycle oscillating back and forth
as the three balls were juggled by the seat and the two pedals. This was
played with a more recent version of showanim.

As I caught the events Leo arrives (in his cape as usual) and hands a disk to
Bill Volk probably saying something like, "play this." Bill ran it up. Bill
liked it. er Bill *L*I*K*E*D* it. (So did the rest of us kibbitzers.) Then Bill
gets the clever idea of running SONIX as well to provide sound backup. (Do THAT
on yer Mac fellas!) In otherwords that demo at the Aegis table of the C= booth
at SIGGRAPH 87 was running on an A2000, all of it - visual, sound, and fury.
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