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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.dsp,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: need a digital movie
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Date: 11 Jan 90 03:34:34 GMT
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Someone suggested that the person who is looking for a digital movie
consider using the numerous Amiga animation sequences which are available.
While this seems like a good idea, I don't think that it is.  The guy
who was looking for a digital movie, was testing a compression algorithm.
The animations that are available at places such as xanth.cs.odu.edu
in directory amiga/demos are already in a compressed format.  I am not
talking about zoo or LZH compression, that only is for archival.  The Amiga
animations often employ a delta encoding inthe IFF picture as well as storing
only the differences between frames of the animation.  

Since I am an Amigan, I naturally thought of my favorite machine, but then
decided that the searcher would not find what he was looking for.  I could
provide a whole slew of 640x400 pictures of the Dr.Who logo moving around
the screen.  I just finished drawing it in DPaint II last night and was
thinking of a neato animation of it and the Tardis. 8^)


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 Bill Murphy        murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu