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From: steveg@janus.uucp (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Super3D - Information Request
Keywords: Super3D
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Date: 6 Jun 89 18:59:22 GMT
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In article <1210@tnoibbc.UUCP> marcel@tnoibbc.UUCP (Marcel Boender) writes:
#>Can anyone please tell me more about Super3D.

#>Please, let me know via e-mail.

Looking at your e-mail path, I probably won't have much
luck with e-mail. Here are my brief experiences.

I've had version 1.0 for about a week. The program is very nice,
though it has brought my 5 meg Mac II to its knees. (I'm hoping
to get a math chip soon and will see if that improves matters.)
As a drawing gets more complex, the program eats memory. One
not too complex drawing I've created can't print while the
program is loaded: What I have to do is wait until PrintMonitor
fails for lack of space, quit the program, and tell PrintMonitor
to try again. The graphic then takes about half an hour to print.

I can't answer most of your questions except that from what
I've seen, Super3D comes with a bunch of standard shapes; I'm
using a cube, for example. It also has two outline character
sets (serif and sans serif) which may be extruded (one letter
at a time in a quite cumbersome manner). You can rotate about
any axis, translate along any axis, and enlarge or reduce along
any axis. It also provides some animation features.

Steve Goldfield