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#demo on floppies???

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#192198From: Mick ThaxtonSep 23, 1995 12:22 AM
Hi all, I don't use 3DStudio, but I'm trying to get my company to purchase it. I am the engineer at a custom wood fixture company, and we do alot of custom stuff. I do probably 10 to 20 Solid models in AutoCAD 12 dos a week. I'd like to move on to the next level of rendering and animation. The kind of thing where our fixtures come together in the center of the screen. My question is, is it possible to make a demo approximately 1 minute long, that would fit on a floppy to send to our customers. It would also have to have a built in player. I realize that normal video is 30 fps, and each frame would be around 50k to 150k in size, so it could get very large. I wasn't sure if there was a good built in file compression tool or not. Does anybody do this sort of thing?
#192234From: Peter KrokoSep 23, 1995 3:02 PM
Mick, I did some work for a company that was in bed with a company called TMM TMM had a remarkable compression system based on fractals. I had 1.5 minuets of really nice video(320×200) , with sound! taking up only 4 megs. Don't know what became of the outfit or what there doing but it sure seemed remarkable to me. There in Hollywood somwhere. Regards, Peter Kroko
#192754From: Mick ThaxtonSep 26, 1995 11:13 PM
Thank you, I'll look into it. -Mick-
#192916From: Peter KrokoSep 27, 1995 9:40 PM
Mick, <<Thank you, I'll look into it.>> Your welcome Regards, Peter Kroko
#192250From: Stephen C. LevySep 23, 1995 8:07 PM
There's a program called Smacker that, at a low rez, MIGHT be able to fit 1 min @ 12FPS on one floppy, particularly if you're just using a solid-color background (fewer changing pixels). It has its own player that comes with it. SCL