#Welcome!
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Welcome to the Elastic Reality, Inc. area! My name is Chris Edgin and I will
take you on a journey beyond sight and sound. Not really, but I will be
available here on a daily basis to answer yor questions and let you know whats
new and exciting.
C'ya around 🙂
Congrats Chris, Perry and Elastic Reality…
… to your new and activated section! I've followed your quest for The Missing
Section and fully understand your joy when you got access to it!
Your ER package sounds very interesting and I look forward to see some
more info regarding features, price and other basics.
I am trying to gain some perspective in regards to the exploding
Windows "visuality market" and one way is to compare new products
with those that been around for a while. Is ER a Windows only product? I have
some faint memory regarding a Macintosh version, but I may be wrong.
Do you know VALIS Metaflo (Mac)? If you do, can you say a few
words about similarities and differences?
(I AM a Windows user, but have also read the Mac press for several
years because it was there things happened first in the image software
market. This order seems to be on its way to become history soon.
Probably not long before Windows releases will gain the highest
priority. So it goes!)
Best regards,
Thomas Lindstrom – DiP – Sweden
The Digital ComPuter Magazine
Elastic Reality began life as a Silicon Graphics product. A reduced function
version was ported to Macintosh shortly thereafter. The SGI product has become
continually refined and the Windows product is similar to our most recent SGI
offering.
The VALIS product is very good but its scope and utility is more narrowly
defined than Elastic Reality. While it is shape based, my understanding is that
you have only a single shape at any given time and cannot tweak a shape once it
is drawn. In Elastic Reality, you can have arbitrarily many shapes and can fine
tune each at any time.
Elastic Reality for Windows is, in my opinion, a considerably more powerful
tool because it does so many things so well. The VALIS product, again in my
opinion, is more narrowly defined as being good for warping with some
compositing.
Thanks for rooting for us…it's great to have our section open.
Perry