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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: the Computer Animation show
Message-ID: <695@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 07:49:34 GMT
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In article <176@anumb.UUCP> mvuxq!adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) writes:
[On the Computer Animation Show]
>up around here (boston) it was shown on pbs several times.
>my tape of it is a treasured possesion....

Unless something VERY weird is going on, what you saw was not the
Computer Animation show that's being discussed here.  That one is
the "Festival of Computer Animation", produced by the same folks
who produce the annual Tournees of Animation, and I don't believe it
is available for TV.

I think the one you're thinking of is "Dream Machines - the Visual
Computer", a one-hour show produced for PBS by, I believe, The Voyager
Company.  I've got this on laser disk, and it is pretty neat, although
it suffers from some editing of the longer pieces.  One distinct
advantage of the laser disk is that it is in the CAV format, therefore
allowing freeze-frame and slow motion.  It's real interesting to see
all of the iterations that result in some of the neat effects and,
since it IS computer-generated, each frame is sharp and clear.

-- 
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