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- From: l115130@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Lehtonen Tero)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: The Party II graphics competition
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:44:42 +0200
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Computing Centre
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- In article <Paul_Trauth.1dvd@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US> Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:
-
- >Well, i can't speak for all artists, but: I'm an artist. I've been one for
- >quite some time. When HAM paint programs came out, i played with them. I
-
- Same here! I started in about 85 with C=64 and KoalaPaint (ah, those old golden
- days...).
-
- >have DPaint 4. I never use HAM. In my opinion, it's only suited for
-
- DPaint4 running in HAM on 7Mhz Amiga is ridiculously slow and practically
- useless, but DigiPaint3 is from totally different world.
-
- >CALCULATED pictures such as ray-traced stuff, not for something that you're
- >going to sit down with and lay down every pixel yourself. I like to have
-
- Now I disagree! HAM is challenging and difficult to use, but when you get used
- to it there is no other choice! I love to have about 1,500 different colours
- in one picture - boy, it looks great!
-
- >pixel-level control over color, and no HAM paint program does that.
-
- Of course not, it's technologically impossible.
-
- >- be zorch, daddi-o --------------- paul (raccoon) trauth ----------------
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- > "eagles may fly, but a weasel will never get sucked into a jet engine"
-
- Tero Lehtonen, l115130@cc.tut.fi
- "HAM - beating hell out of VGA"
-
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