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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Response to Amiga HAM question (really: Killer fill mode demos)
Keywords: Amiga, HAM, screen graphics
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Date: 10 Mar 90 11:54:15 GMT
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jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:

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>	For those who haven't seen them, FillMaze is a 3D maze program, and
>PolyGonia is a 3D object viewer (the objects are predefined, and they rotate
>around - I believe you can control the rotation, but it's been a little
>while since I've run the thing). I think they qualify as "killer demos" :)

FillMaze, yes, but Polygonia NO. I got horrid frame rates with Polygonia on
a 2.6 Mhz GS. Maybe I have a freak motherboard or something; I thought that
Polygonia was slow because the 3D transformations were being done with the SANE
toolset (are they?) and the SANE toolset is notoriously slow.

The kind of fillmode demo I'd like to see would be one that runs a sequence
of animation, at 60 frames/sec on a stock GS w/ no accelerator. This of course
puts a limit on the complexity of the pictures so they would need to be custom
generated or if they were digitized Japanimation (my favorite example) they
would need to be cleaned up in a major way. This and the sheer hours of
digitizing that would be required explain why such a demo has not been done.

But it would look pretty darn good to have a few minutes of Lum or something
running on a ROM 03 motherboard or equivalent...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu