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#Any cheap alternatives?

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#8010From: Tripp LilleyJan 19, 1992 7:28 PM
Joe – although I am not as well-versed as I used to be in those nifty p.d. and s reware thangs that will make what you want to happen happen, I can assure you that there is a very cheap alternative to buying Pro or 3D Studio. Ask someone who has them to do it. This may seem silly, especially if you do not know anyone who has them, but now you do! I have Pro (well, oK, i *don't* have 3ds.) hopefully, they'll let me B-test for a new version (not 2, since it's already on its way out…) .. anyway, I am offering assistance. If you can FTP the images to SIVAD.ASYNC.VT.EDU and put them in a to-be-specified directory, I can compile them and make a .FLC or .FLI file. As for shareware to do all of this, I and my cohorts in the Virginia Tech ACM/Siggraph chapter are working furiously (well, okay, not *furiously*) on lots of neat toys that either A) aren't around – or – B) are just too d*mn expensive!… Anyway, if this option sounds good, send me mail at tripp@sivad.async.vt.edu and we will set up the directories/accounts/permissions necessary to trade these files (the system is *not* an anonymous FTP site… it just happens that my roommate runs an InterNet site using SLIP…) – Tripp Lilley Magrathea Graphics 205 Major Williams Hall Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (whew!) Blacksburg, VA 24060-0008 (oh, and if all of that is too much trouble, you can give the disks to Jared Peterson (G.W.U. undergrad… Sophomore…) and tell him to give them to me next time he sees me…) "this communication business is entirely too complex. We need some more string. "
#8065From: Joe DeWitteJan 20, 1992 10:57 PM
Tripp, thanks for the offer. My needs for animation are very modest: I'm just trying to take a sequence of processed images and play them one after another. I have found a program called ANIMaxx from North Coast Software in Barrington, NH that fits my simple needs for now. It only set me back about $50 and works well under Windows. When I get back to work after my doctorate is finished, I'd like to get in touch with you and see some of the great things y'all are doing down there in Blacksburg. My company has recruited there for several years and we've hired several good people from Tech. You have a good program running there. Anyway, maybe I'll do the next recruiting trip and we can get together then. Thanks again. Hey, what's Magrathea Graphics anyway? —Joe DeWitte