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John, Thanks for the info. For your information, it seems that deBabelizer is the perfect application for a current project at the Royal Ontario Museum. We are developing a mac based interactive application which allows visitors to explore the optical properties of gemstones, including the sparkle of diamond, the chatoyancy of Cat's Eyes and Star Sapphires, and the play of colour in Opals. Visitors get the chance to change the properties of gems – the shape of a brilliant cut diamond or the index of refraction of a diamond – and see the effect on the light. We are using a variety of programs, ranging from 3D studio to Prisms (probably) to Persistance of Vision to Renderman to produce the animations. Then we are going to translate these sequences (and video sequences of real gems) into full-frame full motion Quicktime movies. Using a RasterOps MxTV board with the QuickTime accelerator, visitors will have a change to play with gems and see why they do what they do. Debabylizer – it hasen't arrived yet – should be the perfect translator for the project. Thanks again for the tip. I look forward to using it. (Are you sure you don't work for Equilibrium ?!?!? 🙂 Tom Wujec ROM