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From: dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigas at SIGGRAPH
Message-ID: <661@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 15:15:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: hplabsz.661
Posted: Thu Aug 13 15:15:37 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 18:34:30 EDT
References: <1196@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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Keywords: Presence at Siggraph
Summary: Love is blind!

In article <1196@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:

>Film and Video Show:
>_Dance of the Stumblers_ - By Steve Segal, using Aegis animator rendered in
>320 x 200. Looked great on a 50' screen. The program says it was recorded
>on 16mm film transferred to 1" NTSC video. Possibly the most inexpensive
>film to make ever shown at the SIGGRAPH film and video show. Action
>happened so fast, and the screen was so big, that any imperfections
>due to aliasing etc. were unnoticeable.

I guess love is blind, and you've been hugging your Amiga too long.
"Dance of the Stumblers" was *horribly* aliased.  (Just look at the
picture in the *program*!)  That was the first thing I noticed about
it.  It had so many jaggies that I seriously wondered what it was
doing in the show.  I guess they put it in to show off the animation,
because the rendering was far from impressive.

Looking over the whole show, I saw aliasing in most of the complicated
animation, though nothing nearly so bad as the "Stumblers".  A lot of
what would otherwise be great stuff had changing Moire patterns during
motion, and even some "jaggies".

My favorites were "Red's Dream" (of course) and "Balloon Guy" which I
thought was absolutely incredible.


Darren Leigh
dleigh@hplabs.hp.com