This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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A quick follow up: that ftp address for LHANT is tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu/ Let me know if it's worth getting. -Kent S. Lidke
Yeah, there's nothing like hemorraging on the bleeding edge. Pre-release software, 1.0 hardware, etc. It's actually all working o.k., but in comparison with what it's GOING to do, real soon now … For LHANT, there was something on comp.graphics.apps.LW about "tomahawk something or other" as an ftp site. The author…
Anthony, I don't know about the Alpha version, but on the Intel version "Load from scene" seems to crash because of infinite parenting loops. The error message flashes almost too fast to see on my Pentium, so on an Alpha it's probably near subliminal speeds. Anyway, if you replace all…
#Perception Trade-in
Message #119633
This is not directly NewTek related, but I have at least moved it out of the LW 4.0 Upgrade thread. Well, I just got a letter from DPS regarding their bus speed conflict. Unfortunately, it's not a software fix. There's a form to fill out if you have a board…
Jim, I'm running a 100 Mhz Pentium. My CPU external speed can be set to 50, 60, or 66, and the internal speed to 1.5 or 2 times the external speed. The stock setup was 66 and 1.5, so I jumpered it to 60 and 1.5. I haven't notice any…
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised to receive mine so quickly. Anti-Gravity was the only one I noticed advertising them (I was looking at a month old VTU at the time), and I was leary of it being some kind of "pre-order". But when I called, they said they had them…
Jim, DPS told me that there is currently a timing problem at 100 MHZ, and that I should clock the motherboard down to 90Mhz. I did this by switching a couple of jumpers on the MB. I also had some strange IRQ conflict. After changing them around to no effect,…
Erik, I think I ordered it about mid-July, and received it in about a week. I remember having about a week to play with it, then I had to got to Yuma AZ for 10 days. Once I got back to San Diego, I commuted to SIGGraph for the last…
Erik, I got my Perception from Anti-Gravity in Santa Monica. I guess I really should've gone out of state to avoid the sales tax, but Santa Monica's close enough to truck to if I ever have real problems. The bus speed conflict may be only with 100 MHz. Also, if…
Mike, Be advised, I had to clock my 100MHz down to 90 for the Perception to work. At SIGGraph, DPS said they had a software fix in work for this, to be available in the proverbial twoo weeks. Don't know any specifics re: 133 MHz. -Kent S. Lidke
Um, I AM using NT, and preview speed is about 1/2 what it should be. Kent Seize the day…and throttle it!
#PC LIGHTWAVE 4.0
Message #118544
Chuck, At the SIGGraph booth, they said there might be a rebate or something for registered Toaster owners who bought the pre-release at retail. Any truth to this? Kent Seize the day…and throttle it!
#LW4.0 Inquiry
Message #118543
Chuck, FWIW, I'm using an Imagine-128 video card, and previews seem to play back more or less at half speed, i.e. a 30 frame preview played back at 30 fps actually takes about 2 secs. Playback at 15 fps takes 1 sec. Kent Seize the day…and throttle it!
Terry, In regards to LW PC, it is currently in a "pre-release" status. This means it is for sale (at least for Intel-type processors), but that some features are not yet implemented. Primarily, this means it supports only Raw, Targa, and IFF images, and does not yet properly import DXF…
Ron, PMJI, I flew helicopters with the U.S. Antarctic Research Program for three years. Although I'm not a research scientist (my B.S. is Aero Eng.), I did pick up a bit from the investigators on the ice. Also, if you can specify a field, I might be able to put…
Paul, Someone will probably already have answered this, but here goes. A significant, if not primary, part of the deterrence force of the cold war was nuclear. Ok, suppose we no longer need ANY nukes. Cut them all. You don't save much, in relative terms. Nukes are big bang, small…
>Wake up and smell the coffee! Any problems in our military are caused by poor organization and infighting…< Ya know, I do smell something, but it sure ain't coffee. 😉 >How strong do we need to be?< In the past year, we have had to be strong enough for police…
liberal as ever
Message #187790
It's not so much a question of blame as it is of the omnipresent American conundrum of the late twentieth century: "We WANT this much, but we'll only PAY for this much." Our problem is that our government does EXACTLY what we tell it to, even if it is stupid.…
DKB 4091 $275 OBO
Message #187608
For sale: DKB A4091 SCSI II controller for A4000. Requires Zorro III slot and Buster chip later than rev. I (part number 390539-09). Never been used, still sealed in original packaging. Asking $275 OBO. NOTE: DKB said that it should work in an A3000 IF you're using OS3.1 and have…
It's a documented bug with the boolean operators. There's a patch available. It's probably in the libs here. Kent
Hmm. Okay, catch-22. It has to read the drive before it can be told to wait before mounting the drive. I should've caught that. I may have been thinking that it wasn't the boot drive, but a second drive. Or (more probably) I'm chewing on my foot. Oh well, it's…
Fred, I don't know why you'd need a utility to slow down the boot. You should be able to just put a "WAIT n" statement in your startup sequence prior to mounting the drive. Generally, modifying the startup sequence is frowned upon, but this should be pretty minor. Then again,…
Last I heard, LW 4.0 will be available for PC, SGI, Alpha and Amiga. I haven't heard anything about a Mac or PowerMac version except "maybe after the other ports". The RISC Alpha workstations are the fastest LW engines available, according to reviews in LWPro. The 100MHz Pentium is supposed…
You might try the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park. I got a book there called "Geologic Hazards in San Diego". It has a couple of rudimentary fault maps, including the Rose Canyon Fault and some tributary faults in the Point Loma area. Kent
Jerry, I had a similar problem once. Tried all the software fixes, took it to the dealer. They said it was the CIA chips (8250s, maybe?). I got lucky, though, it was just a bent pin on the port. It did exactly what you describe, though I'm sure there are…
While it doesn't quite qualify as a coffe shop, the science camp on the scenic shores of Lake Fryxell, Southern Victorialand, Antarctica is a favorite stopping point for helicopters. Hot gourmet coffee from San Francisco served up with a smile by friendly marine biologists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 'course,…
>deck landings with a 130…< Well, yeah, but I don't think they have much payload on takeoff. The Herc's a great plane, but I think the carrier stuff was a one time only test, sorta like with the U2. Besides, any LZ bigger than 50' x 60' is for insecure…
Hmm. So far, I'm hearing that: 1. The PAR (M-JPEG) IS broadcast quality, and an NBC affiliate in Denver is purchasing one for production. 2. MPEG still requires a $10K to $20K board to encode. 3. Present quality systems are limited to mid range production with just above VHS quality.…
#What is Bcast Quality
Message #1421
Hello all, Another user has been asking me about "broadcast quality" from hard disk recorders ala the PAR. I've gotten out of my depth, so I thought I'd throw the question(s) to the floor. 1. What constitutes broadcast quality as of Jan. 1995, beyond the technical specs of RS-170A (or…
Robert, Um, we've about reached the limit of my technical expertise. 🙁 Very loosely, VHS has about 225 lines of resolution, Hi-8 about 400, S-VHS about 425. (These numbers are to the best of my recollection). Also, Hi-8 and S-VHS use a component signal, keeping the luminance element seperate from…
>Can you get prime time NTSC broadcast quality with one?< Well, I have yet to see a true definition of "broadcast quality", other than meeting the technical specs for signal transmission. The Amiga PAR is, from what I have heard, Beta but not Beta SP quality. However, this was based…
PMJI, There is a board called the PAR (Personal Animation Recorder) which will play 30fps/60 fields from a dedicated hard disk. Manufactured by DPS. Don't know what the PC version costs, but the Amiga version, with drive, is about $1800 (I think). It uses motion JPEG. I usually hear the…
>Obviously we can't blow the earth to bits…< What, you've never heard of the Eludium 236 explosive space modulator? Kent
>mountain lions and sharks…< Well, you know we all have the right to not be eaten, so the government must have failed to adequately protect those folks. Fortunately, every lawer in the state is busy with the O.J. trial, so maybe there won't be a suit. An don't forget, those…
You make my point. If the only restraint on human behavior is perceived consequences, if we postulate no right and wrong, then we're no better than rats in a cage, avoiding behavior which brings an electric shot. I choose to believe we are more than behavioral mechanisms. But as I…
>rights don't exist, except where the power exists to create and enforce them.< If we choose to be merely brownian particles blown by the winds of the world, then we are. The result would be a world where life was meaningless and cheap. Why not kill the one who irritates…
>if every basic job pays $3/hour and takes place in toxic smoke filled rooms… If employers get together to maintain a blacklist of troublesome employees…< This is getting pretty sinister. If all my neighbors got together and decided to beat the crap out of me, that would suck, too. I…
Consumers don't have to care what happens to employees. Employees know. If the work or the pay sucks, they quit, and the company incurs the expense of training new employees or raising wages to rehire employees. Companies that incur more expenses than their competitors will be disadvantaged. Now, if it's…
John Galt is a protagonist in "Atlas Shrugged". I was just chiding you for sounding like Ayn Rand. Kent
The theory is that business will always be accountable to the consumer. Unresponsive companies would get less business, responsive companies would get more. Bad guys shrink, good guys grow. The consumers have what the business wants: money. In the absence of a monopoly, which has been addressed ad nauseum elswhere,…
#The Libertarian Platform
Message #176754
>If you take away the brain people. you're screwed.< Careful. You're beginning to sound like John Galt. Kent
#The Libertarian Platform
Message #176747
Yes, deT applauded American civic spirit, but he also wondered at the end of D in A about a new species of oppression, wherein the authority og the government "would be like that of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it…
Wayne, A second tube for glow would definitely help in atmosphere or under water. I'm not sure what John has in mind for this. Have you animated an electric arc before? Kent Lidke Helo Pilot on AutoPilot
Hmm, If you melted all the ice in Antarctica, it'd raise the sea level about a hundred feet. They should've just set it on the coast. Besides, if the icecaps started to melt, they'd send the seaQuest to stop it. Kent Lidke Helo Pilot on AutoPilot
>electricity< Sounded like an interesting idea, so I tried it. I modeled a thin tube with a high polygon count. Gave it a bluish color and a fractal transparency map with high contrast, and fractal displacement map. Depending on how high you set the displacement value, you can get it…
Error msg humor
Message #92569
I got an interesting error message in modeler today. I made the mistake of having two foreground layers selected when I tried to morph two polys, and the following came up in a dialog box: Yah got me! I can't make this junk, son, it's in the wrong layer. This…
Try the VRLI section of Graphics Vendor A forum. (Go GRAPHVENDA) The programmers are on-line offering quick and courteous tech support. There is a converter for DEM to VistDEM, probably available in the VRLI LIB. You can use a paint program to create a color map for conversion to DEM,…
John, Thanks. I hadn't got around to Set Val yet. If you don't display your (my) ignorance, it'll never get corrected, I guess. Kent Lidke Helo Pilot on AutoPilot
Stephen, Couldn't you just select ALL the points in a narrow volume, and use a stretch value of zero in 1 dimension, centered on the wall of your cube? Granted, you'd have to do eight ops, but that's not so bad. Or have I completely missed the point? Kent Lidke…
AGII?
Message #84291
Jerry, My AGII hasn't shown up yet. 🙁 I was just wondering if you're down to the L's yet. I don't mean to be impatient. I was born that way. **End of whine** Thanks, Kent Lidke Helo Pilot on AutoPilot
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