[geeks] This Litle Green Monster...

[Kevin]

POV Ray was (and still is, in a way) a pretty cool app.  A lot of
power and flexibility as long as you had the patience, and it would
run on the barest of minimums.  I was actually introduced to linux by
way of another command line renderer, Radiance, a true radiosity
renderer back in '94 or so.  At the time, Radiance would only run
under *nix and i wanted it bad enough to dig into linux.

I could be wrong, but i think *.FLI were the really bad ones. 
320x200 with a 256 colour palette for the entire animation.  FLC's
were still limited to 256 colours but could be of higher resolutions.
I remember doing at least 1024x768 with one.

I do remember reading that 3DS's origin was with Cyber Tools or Cyber
Sculpt or something on the Atari ST, but i never got to see it.  It
would be interesting to see it in action.

/KRM

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:45:23 -0500
Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:28:24PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> > Tell them to start with POV-Ray on a 386 with 4 megs of RAM and
> > they will learn better than most animators/modelers i see today
> > :)
> 
> That certainly brings back memories.  That is what I started with. 
> A 386sx with 4 megs of ram.  Going to a machine with a math
> coprocessor and true color display was so nice.  Of course, for
> animation I didn't get to take advantage of the true color because
> of using FLC or FLI files (which ever was worse I think was what I
> used).
>  
> > BTW: i was animating a particle system made up of individual
> > green chili peppers coming from an exploding hot sauce bottle
> > with the peppers reacting to dynamics.  It could have been done
> > with 2D mapped particles but the dynamics thing would have been
> > shot.  Hell, i only had ~45-55 particles in the whole system and
> > the pepper objects were cut down about as far as i could get them
> > poly wise.  Max was a resource hog back then (and may still be, i
> > wouldn't know these days), but there were some things that it
> > could do at that time that nothing in it's price range could even
> > hope for.  Wavefront could have handled those particles in a much
> > more elegant manner, but that was an SGI and mutli-grand software
> > away from me at the time.
> 
> Well, you could have always used POVray. :)
> 
> BTW, did you ever see the Cyber tools for the Atari STs that
> preceded 3DS (the team who did the Cyber tools was hired to do 3DS
> and Animator Pro). 
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