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From: bph@ut-emx.UUCP (Butler Hine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3d animation systems
Message-ID: <1853@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 01:26:43 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@emx.UUCP (hine  butler)
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: 3D Animation Length
Summary: More Questions

[look, ma, I'm flyin']

I'm directing this at Leo, or anyone else that has had experience with
more than one animation program.  Are all of them limited in the length
of the sequence (in seconds) to the amount of memory you have?  I know
this is true for Sculpt-3D, but I don't know about any of the others.
If this is true for all of them, does anyone have any recommendations
for a way of recording single frames at a time, to be played back at
full speed later on?  Single frame capable VCR's with flying erase heads
are one way to do it, but a better way might be to use the new WORM drives
coming out now.  Will these things work off of the SCSI controllers out
now (ie. Supra's, etc).  I assume that they would work off of the IBM
bus of the A2000.  If frames were recorded onto a WORM drive, could they
then be played back at full speed?  This is a disk transfer rate problem,
since I would imagine that the frames would need to be DMA'd directly
into CHIP memory to be displayed that fast.


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