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- From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh PlayMation experience
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.023745.1433@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:37:45 GMT
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- Robert Reed writes:
- >chris williams writes:
- >|Jack Palevich 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.
-
- >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.
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- Intuitive in the real sense, or "intuitive" is the Mac-buzzword sense?
- Press the "g" key for group. Press "Return" to un-group all. About two minutes
- to get it, tops.
-
- >Spline curvatures are edited by nonintuitive curvature control parameters
- >attached to the nodes,
-
- Complain to Ed Catmull. Catmull-Rom splines behave differently than the
- Bezier splines that you are used to. The advantages of these splines for
- easy objects creation are fairly obvious. Bezier patches are difficult to
- control when you want to create a mesh, while continuity between Catmull
- patches is simple. B-Spline patches have continuity, but require "ghost
- points" outside the object.
-
- >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.
-
- I have built *many* objects, and have *yet* to use the curve controls.
- I suspect that you are trying to force the Catmull-Rom splines to behave as
- Bezier patches, and are getting frustrated. Read up on Catmull-Rom patches.
- (...and why you shouldn't put <tab>'s in an ASCII forum)
-
- >________________________________________________________________________________
- >Robert Reed Home Animation Ltd. 503-656-8414
- >robert@slipknot.rain.com 5686 First Court, West Linn, OR 97068
- >
- >When I'm really bored, I hope to drive downtown, get a great parking spot,
- >then sit in my car and count how many people asked me if I'm leaving.
- >--Steve Wright
- >________________________________________________________________________________
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- Chris Williams
- chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu
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