#Caligari vs CAD-3D
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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=-
Yeah, the oscillating LC shutter would work real nice. BTW "ordinary "
video is 60 fields per second, or 30 frames per second (NTSC), a field
being half a frame in interlace mode (but you probably knew that). $90
would be steal, I think Caligari is way above that. I will indeed report
to you after CES which is in Las Vegas Jan 8-12. —Mike
Thanks for the info. Go ATARI16 and read msg.#47797 if you want to read
some more about Cybermate for the ST. (p.s. I don't want to get into that
computer wars thing. I think Amiga's are lovely…just a bit out of my
pocket). -=Gavin=(BTW that's what I meant re: video frame rates.)