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From: Mark Thompson <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Collision Detection
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>In DIS VIS-SIM thats EXACTLY what we do.

Ah, DIS and DAT. Big expensive toys for the military boys. While at
Concurrent, we put together one of the hot DIS units in colaboration
with E&S. That was well over a year ago though.

>I believe there are a few  animation
>apps that DO collision detection. I personally would take a couple minutes of
>rendering time increase ( over the course of all frames ) for such capability.

I think what most people would want collision detection for is to determine
inter-object penetration. For that, I think a solid shaded preview is of
greater value, epscially since it can be more interactive.
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  *           Mark Thompson           http://www.mv.com/ipusers/fusion  *
  *         Fusion Films, Inc.              [e-mail]          *
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