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From: papa@uscvax.UUCP (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga reactions
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 21:37:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 21:37:31 1985
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> In article <918@loral.UUCP> jlh@loral.UUCP (Belly Up) writes:
> >> 
> >>  I saw the famous "bounce" program and was blown away.  For those who haven't
> >> seen it, this is an animation of a beach ball bouncing in a room.  The beach
> >> ball is red and white patchwork, and rotates on its axis as it moves.  It
> >> has a shadow which follows it across the floor and the background. 
> >I saw this running on a monitor at SIGGRAPH and the demo was pretty impressive.
> >However, one should realize that for the show a lot of manufacturers spent
> >several minutes drawing a picture, then saved the picture to disk or videotape.
> >Do this several times and you have an animated feature.  You'll never guess
> >what they showed during the demo.  Thats right, they showed the canned
> >pictures.  If the amiga was drawing this beachball as it went then this is
> >one helluvan impressive system, but I wouldn't count on it.  Especially
> >if that 8% number is correct......
> 
> Actually such a program is no big deal. several small images of a beach-ball in
> various stages of rotation are saved in memory and then copied onto the screen
> with a block move. when used in order, the ball appears to be rotating. No big
> deal, and very little processor work.
> 
> E. Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa

I saw the demo at Sighgraph on a giant screen and it was impressive.  I would
like to know whether a Demo Tape (VHS format) that contains "the Mandrill",
"Robocity", and the "Bouncing Soccer Ball" is available from any source.  Has 
anybody transfered these demos on tape?  If you have done such a thing let me 
know.  I need this as a good example of microcomputer graphics and animation
for a seminar here at USC.  I'll pay for the tape and the postage.

Marco Papa
USC - Computer Science Dept.

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