Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:21702 comp.sys.mac:19203 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dulcimer.cis.ohio-state.edu!sarrel From: sarrel@dulcimer.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Siggraph88 and a deal Message-ID: <19761@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 Aug 88 17:33:05 GMT References: <3551@cadnetix.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 36 In article <3551@cadnetix.COM> childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs) writes: >Apple had a animation called Pencil Test. It was very good. It was basically >a cartoon, done entirely on a MAC II. (so they said) What do you mean "so they said"? I was at SIGGRAPH as well. I also thought "Pencil Test" was very good. Is Apple going to _lie_ about something like that? I went to the animation screening Tuesday night and just about everyone cheered when the graphic came up that said that "Pencil Test" had been done on a Mac II. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by saying that it was a cartoon. It was a computer animation, just like all the other computer animations there. Actually, I heard that the software they used to make it was a version of Twixt ported to the Mac II. For those who don't know, Twixt was done here at Ohio State as a PhD dissertation by a guy named Julian Gomez. It is a fancy keyframe system. Instead of just allowing you to keyframe whole frames at one time, it allows you to put splines through key points on tracks. A track would be something like the x or y coordinate of a object over time. Tracks also are used for such things a scale, rotation, color, and (if you don't mind getting fancy) shape. I would say that "Pencil Test" was certainly better than IBM's sole entry into the animation show. All they did was a fly-through of a 3-d Julia Set. They didn't put any fancy colors on it. They didn't do any dramatic changes of scale. Just a simple, silent (it didn't have _any_ sound track at all) fly-through. I think the response that the audience gave it was the very definition of a smattering of applause. I guess that the only reason it got into the show in the first place was that the theme of this year's SIGGRAPH was scientific visualization. -=- Marc Sarrel, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277 sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu "If you wanna have fun, go to Washington. Spokane!" -- Cleric Apton