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Article #551Re: Buying a multimedia system
From: John Dudley
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 18:27
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 18:27
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In article <1992Sep9.041425.9379@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mdicker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Dickerson) writes: > ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: > > >I'd like to know what sort of images you saw on the DCTV. Were they > >computer-generated animations, or captured digital video? > > They were computer generated, but the entire frame was changing each > time, because it was a flying-observer type of deal where objects were > moving in the scene and also the observer was moving too which had the > effect of the entire background of the image changing. Looked > way-fine. The salesdroid indicated it had been rendered on an Amiga > 3000 with some sort of animation program. > > M/ The fact that it was rendered on an Amiga 3000 doesn't mean too much. The Amiga 2000 or 500 could do the same rendering, albeit slower.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!cebaf4!dudley From: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system Message-ID: <1992Sep9.182736.1895@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 9 Sep 92 18:27:36 GMT References: <1992Sep9.041425.9379@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep4.151113.3583@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep6.145949.7467@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep7.183146.10658@waikato.ac.nz> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) Organization: CEBAF Lines: 19