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Subject: Re: HAM Ray Traced Juggler (THE FIX)
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Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 04:30:16 EST
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Summary: Thanks for Juggler fix


Mike Cherry's posted fix to the Juggler's movie.data.uue file worked
perfectly; thanks! And thanks to Andy Finkel for posting it, and of course
Eric Graham for creating it. It's great! BTW on closer inspection it is
clear that the juggler, the three balls, and relevent shadows and reflections
are in fact ray traced (i.e. everything in the scene except maybe the sky
and the plain outside of the Juggler's immediate area) with no indication
of any "short cuts" (non-ray traced objects). I also did not see any of the
artifacts that would have been introduced by the CCC compression technique
that I speculated on in my original "Amiga news - long but *juicy*" posting,
so it's not clear to me which compression technique he *did* use. Anyone
see anything revealing? The prelude says that each frame is expanded within
30 milliseconds from about a 10K byte compressed format (320 by 200 in HAM
requires 48K bytes for display). Oh, yeah...the elbows are no longer pinned
against the backdrop, either (feature!), as they were in the version demo'd
at the FAUG meeting.
	Doug Merritt	hoptoad!mentat!doug, pesnta!mentat!doug,
			ucbvax!unisoft!certes!mentat!doug