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- Hi,
-
- Another startupscreen for the collection, and all you PowerMac
- owners...
-
- Like the others, it's a 16", so if you want it in other sizes, use
- something like Photoshop or Thorsten Lemke's GraphicConverter 1.7.8 to
- scale it to your screen. (I'm not going to re-render this one!)
-
- It is an oblique view of the words "Welcome to Power Macintosh" in
- large mirrored text.
- For those who want to know, "welcome to" is in Apple Garamond, the
- rest in Bauhaus Heavy (like previous screens).
- There are various company logos (Apple, IBM, Motorola) around the
- text, some in the background, and some reflected in the main text.
- Underneath it all is an infinite plane covered in Apple Logos (a bit
- clichéd I know!)
-
- Overall the picture is very colourful, though I think it's a bit over
- the top! Definitely prettier than the default one though!
-
- Again, done in Specular Infini-D 2.5.1.
-
- To those who have asked, this is saved as a startupscreen, so dump it
- in your system folder and when you restart, it will appear instead of
- the "welcome to macintosh" screen and your extensions will load over
- the top of it.
- Otherwise, it is a PICT resource file so most graphics apps will open
- it (Photoshop, GraphicConverter, GIFConverter…).
-
- This took 3.5 hours to render on my 840AV, and a further 15.25 to
- anti-alias, so don't believe what anyone says about rendering taking a
- long time!
- I think I'll have to clock chip my Mac to save a bit of time! (maybe
- get an 8100??? Hang on, I'm a poor student!)
-
- I have to say that the anti aliasing is VERY good in Infini-D (if it
- wasn't, I'd turn it off!), though I'm not so enthusiastic about the
- modelling tools; maybe not splines, but could we have binary
- operations please? Ye Olde CAD 3D on the Atari ST had that (it could
- also produce stereo images for use with LCD shutter glasses a la
- SGI!).
- The ability to suspend rendering and return to it later would be nice
- (OK, Backburner, I know...)
-
- I'd like receive any comments or suggestions you have…
-
-
- Marcus Bointon
-
- MSc Student Loughborough University, England
-
- m.b.b.bointon@lut.ac.uk
-
- PS, dear Pacific Hi-tech,
- Please feel free to stick this image and others I have done on your
- next CD (Jan 94 issue was good), but keep the readmes with them, and
- yes, I'd love a copy!