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From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Voice Mail on Amiga
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.132314.12313@rpi.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 89 13:23:14 GMT
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In-Reply-To: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu's message of 2 Oct 89 06:25:14 GMT
In kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes:
Nguyen> The demo I saw was of an aspirin molecule being rotated through
Nguyen> various axes. The drawing essentially looked like a bunch of spheres,
Nguyen> but the neat thing (pointed out, of course) was that you could "see
Nguyen> through" the spheres (you could see other spheres/atoms behind them)
Nguyen> hazily. This was supposedly a highly CPU-intensive demo, so it made
Nguyen> sense that the other demos went rather slowly.
It shouldn't have been highly CPU-intensive. You could do the same
thing on the Amiga very easily- just do the computation beforehand....
(The way to make impressive demos is *not* to slow down the machine.)
Nguyen> When did you last see a graphics/mouse-based interface for a Unix
Nguyen> workstation?
About 12 hours ago. (Sorry, I couldn't resist... and you did ask....)
:)
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Robert Jude Kudla
What noisy cats are we.