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J. eric. did you hear about the stuff (oh about month & 1/2 or so ago) a
program/system called "Caligari" (like Dr.) There was apparently a demo
video tape shown at an amuse meeting I believe. From the description I read
on the amuse bbs it was just awesome. A 3D flying point-of-view down from
above to some kind chess board like thing with different objects on the
square and then a flight through it at the level of the objects swooping
around a-la starwars deathstar trench sequence and with the point of view
rotating 180 degrees while moving so that you then looked backwards at where
you were coming from.
All in 3d with multiple light sources/shanding etc, (don't recall if it was
raytracing or not, it might have been) This was done on some kind of vcr
(some fancy beta I believe) that had the single frame record and this program
controlled it. They set it up and left it over night ( I believe they said 20
hours) and voila, instant 3d video with smooth animation. Any Amuse people
here see that? Just thought I'd mention this. I think they said the program
was 60% done too. Bye