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If you talked over the history of LIVE! with the A Squared people, you'd find out how much Commodore blew their chance by… ANyway, I just wish there was something comparable to the Mac's Video Spigot, which is a great deal of fun., provides high quality imaging and Quicktime videos.…
A friend of mine is developing a system for pencil testing and synching and possibly painting, but that may be done on SGIs instead. The idea is to let the animators use the amigas for the speed and instant feedback, but do the rendering and compositing of faster equipment. He's…
Ben & John: I wrote a Q&D BB PI WrTiff module a few months ago … mac reads it fine. I'm sure you guys put in the compression (Huffman/Lzw) which I left out, but it was good enuf so I could make a hokey conversion chain for my animation last…
And it's too bad my Vapor ANimation didn't make it to tape in time. Not my fault , though.
Well, dig this. the ~80 meg .jpeg fils got converted to tiff, and then directly to Targa format, piling up on two sides of a Sony Optical.. Fortuantely, Targa does some crude compression 'cuz it fit in the measly 600 meg. THEN, using NFS networking, the files got siphoned off…
I can't be worse than Dectape? or can it!!!??? And if you guys can figure out how to wake up by Bernoulli Dual's slave drive, I'd appreciate it. ;^).
If saved uncompressed, this anim would be approx 880 meg. Direct DAT support would be useful!
I'm about to render 1100+ frames to a networked Personal Iris so they can be tar'ed and stuck on a DAT to be rendered for Siggraph. Just to say that it can be done. TTR gacve a talk at Amuse a few months ago where they said they hope to…
Heh – I was just on there (I don't call Designline frequently..) and saw your name plastered all over the anim section. ciao!
Peter: Are you interesting in showing your reel at AMuse.. (NY Amiga user's group?) email 76625,2425 or perhaps call Designline BBS , which has an AMUSe section..718 276 0246… j h h lowengard, AMUSEnik
Ben: you could release IM/IP doc as notebook files every hour or so after each upgrade. I don't run games but I have fun anyway… (sound of tree falling in forest) I don't read Amigaworld either. even though I'm solicited for it every quarter or so. jhhl, not whapping
(You've met me… and my software's full of grooves!) the flappable jhhl
looks like the kind of thing one would fix with a 1 char hack to a printf string. I'm still doing audio tests. More as this develops. jhhl
Yeah, I'm a real sloppy replyer. ANyway, the picture is on the title page (sequence that is). Great shor of EM sitting in a chair. (title page of _The Human Figure in Motion_, that is.Dover,1955). Lowengard's aesthetic rule: when in doubt, run the nude shot.
Anim sounds good for me…. And on a similar note, my WrAud module started working yesterday or so. It treats the red plane of an image as amplitude information for a sonogram, with user selectable sample rate, total time, and "high frequency" (frequency of the highest line in the sonogram).…
If you have a complete set of the Human motion studies, Muybridge is the Elderly nude guy with the beard. …(can't seem to find it here though..)
ABout Jpeg on the mac: There's a nice Jpeg compressor that comes with the Quicktime CD rom . Not true JFIF files, but I'm working (or not) on "fixing" the file up to be legible by ImagePro. A bit tricky, since I don't have any JFIF specs! So, My guess…
Choose names like those and every Asia basher in the country will think you've sold out! Since you always refer to it as IM or IP, why not make it IM or IP officially. Or, for Britain, 'im and 'ip ? 'enery
How about "Massage"? A lot of people would buy it for the name alone, but since massagind image data is what it does…. and it's almost a martial art. (or a venerial art) I, for one, try to stay clear of anything with "PRO" as part of its name. A…
Actually, there's a pragma in 2.04 that sets the stacksize for the current Arexx program. (And maybe for subprocesses it launces). Syntax: Oldstack = PRAGMA('Stack',NewSize) See pages 10-111.1, 10-112.1 in the "amended" manual. So this might be a better solution. (IF you have 2.04) Since I got my HAM-E back…
They oughta… Nick has a sort of a contest going, where people do their own compositions sampled off of his latest CD (Beta 14 OK, on Cuneiform Records..) Submit YOUR composition on DAT and cassette copy. Happy sampling!
The other way to load consecutively named frames into DPAINT (III) is to got to the "normal" image load, select the first frame, and type in "number of frames to load". Pretty good and fast, except for the lock it leaves on the first frame! (Perhaps fixed in IV). I…
Bill: Nick's a friend of mine (we're possibly the most experienced HMSL users in the NYC area..) and his most recent release features pieces composed by HMSL but played by Dr. Nerve on "real" instruments! He might not minsd if I give his phone number: (212) 369-1733. I'm sure he…
jp, anyone can suggest anything. It's like writing a letter to your congress person (so who elected me?) The music parts…there's one unfinished music part that uses it "not sporting" IMPI bridge facilities. I don't want to push it even though it would probably work, but a certain company has…
I was hoping it wouldn't be that organized. YOu'd be able to follow "threads" to related messages, it the autor put them in. A lot of the objects would be kept locally from previous sessions (checksummed for accuraccy) Still thinking about it. NOT liek a 3d cyberspace with "rooms" and…
One of my "background" projects is to take the vapor paint workscreen and make it into a terminal program to a Vapor Host. The entire bbs would communicate in vector graphics! You would even "sign In". It would not be a 6D system like vapor or even ANimate, just allow…
I've been putting Arexx RVI stuff in Vapor paint and it's cool! the way to go to stick complicated structers where Arexx cna get them! (for Arexx coded procedures, that is..) F'rinstance, I can draw a line, hit a macro button, and have the macro pick up the pins of…
I hate to tell you this, jp, but its been done! The NYU Interactive TV degree program, run out of the Tisch School of the Arts, has a Cable show here in Manhatttan which ofthen runs interactive video art projects. One, which you may have heard of, was "Dan's Apartment",…
Don't forget that LIVE! is/was programmable by third parties as well.. IMHO there's a big market for a higher res or more adjustable realtime video digitizer with an open interface. just strobe it, chew on the image data, blit it or whatever, strobe again… I did something like that using…
NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER buy one of my programs – if it ain't free, I wouldn't write it! If you did buy it, make someone buy it back. I used not to even post on CI$ because of the download expense (etc.) I wrote the help A) as an experiment,…
You don't suppose you could slip one into my Ham-E while it's being repaired? 8^).. Also missing from that list of "PIE" flavors: support for drawing pens in the paint section. I'd need the path of the most recent mouse path, bitplanes, current colors, and a flag saying whether refresh…
I dumnno . Maybe it spazzed out for its birthday or got jealous of the new PAL chips!?!? Too bad, cuz I got these Dual 90 meg drives here waiting to get filled up with Ham-e frames! Atleast I'll get the adjustment pot put on the front (or somewhere) .…
Have any of my intrepid users tried rendering the Examples yet? Just press "l", choose a .vee file, and render with "shift-A". or test render with "a". SHift-5 will test render from the View's point of view. THe Vaporous Jhhl
JP – just wait till you realize how the thing fits together. How you can remap the widths(Radii) of brush strokes en mass by going into the X-R dimension view and selecting the whole thing and dragging it with the Move lines pen up a few millimeters…. stuff like that.…
The trash Icon awaits it. It's a simple way to make Vapor Paint even more Vaporous. If you still want to read any of the doc, I suggest looking at the (poorly named) Glossary. Workscreen and KEys and Pums/Icons are pretty important. I spent months just drawing things and flying…
Then again, you may end up having all the success of Alive, The Sidecar, the 1300 genlock and other Commodore Supported Hardware efforts. 8^). I hope not! BTW My HAM-E has dinked and you may be seeing it soon – or your intrepid staff.
at 272K, VPaint is maybe small enuf to just drag down and look at. There's a bunch of help files in a (crummy) hypertext-like help system format, located in the VHelp: directory. Assign VHelp: to it, go into the program and hit the Help key. just some helpful hints from…
Of course, the only user VPAint is supposed to be friendly to is me. Note that 64k or so of doc files is not what I'd call minmal for a 160k program.. Vpaint's universal "SHUTUP" key is the space bar. and the ANim you want is probably "SHift-A", not A……
Yeah, I've seen Fractal's "Painter" using a Wacom at the local decent Mac store. It's the best. Amiga Desparately needs a paint program in this class. As you know by now, 3d rendering itself is a sort of a trivial process. The hard part is the database organization and the…
.. In some respects, the entire operation of Vapor paint is a macro… Every stroke you make is recorded in a floating pint space and can be cropped, redrawn scaled and animated, and later rendered. Not a "nice" program like others, but…. it does do that motion bluured 2-d anim…
perry = you folks might want to download Vapor paint, load the 1992.vee file and generate it. 90 frames, "any" format from Iff24, AMiga 4-plane B&W and HAM-E. Might be too much trouble, on the other hand.
Mac sculpt has texture maps and output to Mac formats, using more Mac conventions and is not very well known in the Mac world as far as I know. I last saw it at the '89 Siggraph in Boston. The Mac also has the ability to connect different physical monitors…
oh, it would be nice to know what the debug screen is about in the PMBC IP, and wheter other modules have similar stuff. just a real documentation of the arguments and options, that's all. You wouldn't want me to poke around inside G compressor in optimized assembler, that would…
#PI in development..
Message #30985
HEy folks: I'm working up a Public interface… to generate 8svx files! It should transform the red plane into left (or Mono), the green to right, treating image data as spectrograms and taking metrics from the screen data. If this works, I'll also do a sonogram analysis PI to turn…
Craig: I uploaded the latest one I have just a few days ago.. take it away! I'd love to support 16 bit format devices and samples, but I don't have the hardware or the docs. I was talking to the beta board people – perhaps I bother them again. This…
* faster more interesting randomizers * private randomizer from AmigaLib _RangeRand MOVEM.L D4/D5,-(SP) MOVE.W d0,D5 get range MOVE.W D5,D4 duplicate SUBQ.W #1,D4 -1 MOVE.L _RangeSeed,D0 get seed .Loop ADD.L D0,D0 double BHI.S .skipEor is hi? EOR.L #$1D872B41,D0 .skipEor LSR.W #1,D4 divide by 2 BNE.S .Loop MOVE.L D0,_RangeSeed new Seed TST.W…
There's one in amiga.lib called RangeRand, but that's a C library – I – uh – liberated it and converted it to register called form so I could use it. I also have one taken from the Macintosh ROMS, but that on is slower and longer.. Anyway, the technique is…
Art: It's probably a lot like my programs "Wink" and "8-pus" which play 8 voices on amiga in real time: I'm using additive synthesis. Note that 16 voices makes the samples effectively 4-bits, so the fidelity is not so hot (unless some time-consuming compansion is also going on). On a…
I just took a peek at it and it looks pretty creaky, besides being a ZOO format file! also, you should know that RGS only handles 128 oscillators, so doesn't resynthesize with great fidelity, and doesn't provide you with dB numbers and such info that you might want from its…
Bill: it sounds like you want to upload a copy of RGS, right here in AMiga arts. It's my realtime spectrogram synthesis program, which can analyze digital sound and let you edit it, or even better, let you draw directly in the frequency domain, using special drawing tools, and hear…
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