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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: There's No Fun At Pixar
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Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 17:17:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 17:17:05 1987
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In article <941@omepd> hah@mipon3.UUCP (Hans Hansen) writes:
}
}I think that you have just hit the nail on the head, i.e. a $2K computer
}and a $200 program displaying a 3D animation that PIXAR created on their
}$20K-$200K graphics engine and are probably asking 10s of thousands of
}dollars for their 3D programming package.  Not only that but Leo did it
}in less than a week!!  Absolutly astounding!!!  And with a 3D package
}that he wasn't familiar with to boot!!!
}
}Yes I think I can now see why PIXAR does not want Leo's work displayed.
}
}Hans

Ok, come on guys, the Amiga only rivalled the PIXAR demo from the aspect
that the Amiga could do 3d graphics rendering.  It would have been 
impossible to create the ACTUAL PIXAR demo on an Amiga; it used umpteen
zillion colors in ultra-rez mode with many, many more objects than Leo's.
Also, the PIXAR demo was several minutes long, only a few dozen seconds
of which were the juggling scene.

	Gary

Leo's demo WAS a real eye catcher.  When I saw it for the first time I
took a double-take and only after several puzzling minutes did I realize
that this was a takeoff of the PIXAR demo.