#Caligari vs CAD-3D
31-Dec-86 22:17:41
Sb: #46361-#Caligari vs CAD-3D
Fm: Gavin Doughtie 73637,641
To: Mike Berro 73267,3361
I am a filmmaker a year out of USC, and my last project was a low-budget
music video. The 60fps I mentioned is Cybermate, which uses some sort of
file-compacting scheme to do page-flipping animations at 60 fps (one frame
on each scan, as per ordinary video). It's supposed to store up to a
thousand frames in a megabyte. Apparently you write an animation "script"
to call CAD-3D commands, saving compacted bit-maps for each frame. Sort of
a "Boink!" generator for whatever one is interested in. I get this all
from an ad in the latest Antic. It does 3D images with oscillating
liquid-crystal shutter glasses, too. It's about $90.00. It'll probably be
real cool and all, but not so useful for professional applications. Do
drop a line after CES (where is that, by the way?). Much obliged.
-=Gavin=-