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- From: jarnold@spot.wrc.xerox.com (jeff arnold esc1-318)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation
- Subject: Public Animation Format
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.194310.23678@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:43:10 GMT
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- Organization: Xerox
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- After submitting my request for an up to date specification for the FLI format
- and not getting any information (I did get a few requests for information I
- might have!) and after finding many inconsistencies and uglinesses in my copy
- of the FLI specification, I came to the opinion that if this group is going to
- actually be able to experience other peoples animations we need to come up with
- a <GOOD> public animation specification. Here are a few of my suggestions:
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- * Multiple screen sizes - (320x200 - 1280x1024)
- * Colour support - (Truecolour (i.e 24 bit) & 256 colour options)
- * Sequencing support - (Looping, reversing etc)
- * SMPTE support - (Multimedia options)
- * Built in extendability - (Sound, text?)
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- Now if someone has a format that is fully documented and supports most if not
- all of these features then please forward it to me and I'll shut up (MPEG ?)
- otherwise how about it?
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- Surely we can do something better than QuickTime? ;-)
-
- Robert
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- RGrant.lax1b@xerox.com
-