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rahmanqi@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Rahman Qazi Ibadur) writes:

>  I know that there are a lot of games that are Rael-Time but what makes real time diffrent from normal animation?

   I'm not too sure about this, but...

   I *THINK* that real-time animation means that the computer is actually
   redrawing everything as it goes, depending on the your move. The opposite
   of this would be a bunch of pre-drawn scenes, and each move you make
   would select what the next scene was. Real-time basically means that
   it makes a decision based on CURRENT events and does something. 

   For instance, Silicon Graphics Workstations can do 3D shading and 
   hidden surface removal in real-time animation. Most other computers
   (PC's) need to pre-calculate and shade each frame, and then display 
   them. 

   Of course, these are my opinions, not facts.

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