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From: ln63wkp@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (RenderMan)
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Subject: Re: BlackBelt may not be a great solution. (for animation)
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Date: 10 Jan 90 04:06:43 GMT
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>UGH! I did mess up!  I was computing on only one bit-plane.  There are
>of coarse four bit-planes in the 16 color mode.  However the point about
>slow animation is valid.  Prehaps the title should have been:
>
>"Black Blet Video - not a great solution for high speed animation."

  It seems that most people who do serious raytracing/animations are
equiped with 020/030 boards so anim playback is extremely fast.   
I believe the sluggishness in the new HAM-E modes will be minimal
on an 030/32bit platform.  
  Are there any anim players our there which will put out animations
recorded with different palettes per frame?  I know it will be slow
on 68000 Amigas but on an 020/030 32bit setup may be minimal.  I
think PhotonPaint lets you save HAM anims with different palettes.
The J-Type anim format used by Sculpt4D sure doesn't like it when
you have different palettes (in fact it won't compress them).  IFF
ANIM compressors do seem to take in pics with different palettes but
they don't seem to play back correctly.  
                                               -Viet
                                               vho@ucsd.edu