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  4. Subject: Re: dinosaur horsepower
  5. Message-ID: <Geoff.1agi@equinox.gen.nz>
  6. From: Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan)
  7. Date: 12 Aug 92 20:27:58 +1200
  8. References: <mcdonald.190@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
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  13. mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
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  15. >Subjectively the same problems I did then run faster now on a high end
  16. >PC .... which also draws little balls showing the atom positions
  17. >on the screen, doing ball color fills in software, in real time.
  18.  
  19. Presumably you mean doing the colour fills in real time [whatever that may
  20. mean], not plotting the atom positions?
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  23. Geoff, "heisenberg will get you!" geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz
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  25.         "Hi. You have just entered the fourth dimension. Small isn't it?"
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