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#130358From: John FoustJun 19, 1988 12:59 AM
Well, maybe 3-Demon is a dog, then? OK, let's have a race. Let's make a tree. I use Sculpt, you use AutoCAD. I think my tree will look more natural than yours. Obviously, if we were racing to build a house with exact dimensions, AutoCAD's a better tool. Saying people won't use Amiga programs to build AutoCAD objects is rather limiting, I think.
#130481From: Ben BlishJun 19, 1988 4:46 PM
<Cleaning blood from Johns epee', nudging Ed's corpse with toe to see if there's any posibility of a riposte>
#130481From: Ben BlishJun 19, 1988 4:46 PM
<Cleaning blood from Johns epee', nudging Ed's corpse with toe to see if there's any posibility of a riposte>
#130582From: Ed SilvaJun 20, 1988 12:19 AM
John, Don't forget that AutoCAD has a language ( AutoLISP ) that the enables you to do complicated objects ( kind of slow but… ) . and your tree I can zap in on minute by telling AutoCAD to give a cone then I will just put a cylinder below it…and done BUT if you are doing a forest how many times can you repeat this tree in Sculpt ( and how fast ?? ) well in AutoCAD I will just tell it to array the tree so many times in the x or y coordinates or even maybe in the z plane! I can shrink it , rotate and so on and so on the bottom line is that I don't want to get in to a chat that is trying to prove who is bad and who is better, so lets stop this chat.
#130723From: John FoustJun 20, 1988 6:44 PM
OK, I accept your surrender. A cone with a cylinder under it is not a tree, except to kindergarteners who also accept a tree as being a circle with a stick under it. My point was about organic versus inorganic objects. Duplicating and scaling and stretching an object is easy in any of the Amiga programs.
#130723From: John FoustJun 20, 1988 6:44 PM
OK, I accept your surrender. A cone with a cylinder under it is not a tree, except to kindergarteners who also accept a tree as being a circle with a stick under it. My point was about organic versus inorganic objects. Duplicating and scaling and stretching an object is easy in any of the Amiga programs.
#130582From: Ed SilvaJun 20, 1988 12:19 AM
John, Don't forget that AutoCAD has a language ( AutoLISP ) that the enables you to do complicated objects ( kind of slow but… ) . and your tree I can zap in on minute by telling AutoCAD to give a cone then I will just put a cylinder below it…and done BUT if you are doing a forest how many times can you repeat this tree in Sculpt ( and how fast ?? ) well in AutoCAD I will just tell it to array the tree so many times in the x or y coordinates or even maybe in the z plane! I can shrink it , rotate and so on and so on the bottom line is that I don't want to get in to a chat that is trying to prove who is bad and who is better, so lets stop this chat.