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- From: robert@slipknot.rain.com (Robert Reed)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh PlayMation experience
- Message-ID: <C1DonD.2A5@slipknot.rain.com>
- Reply-To: robert@slipknot.rain.com.UUCP (Robert Reed)
- Organization: Home Animation Ltd.
- References: <C1CI80.Iq@taligent.com> <1993Jan24.093443.6267@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:50:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.093443.6267@midway.uchicago.edu> chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:
- |In article <C1CI80.Iq@taligent.com> Jack Palevich <Jack_Palevich@Taligent.com> writes:
- |>Cons:
- |> * Weird user interface. Doesn't work like a Mac program. Limited Undo.
- |
- | Different user interface. Most parts of the Mac paradime don't
- |apply. Most 3D programs have *no* undo at all.
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- Weird or different, it's still not as good. Node selection is not a natural
- extension of typical point selection techniques, but a completely different and
- nonintuitive offshoot. Spline curvatures are edited by nonintuitive curvature
- control parameters attached to the nodes, and when nodes are used as control
- points for multiple splines, many of the curvature parameters are lost to the
- editor. (Sure, you can get at them by editing the ascii model file, but what a
- pain.) There is pointer based control of these curvature parameters, but it's a
- crude second order effect (e.g., you move the cursor back and forth, and the
- curvature parameter is modified over SOME range, which shows up as some one or
- two axis flex of the curve.
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