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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:34:34 EDT
- From: <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92225.113434KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Fractal Cell animation with a RamFast (1Meg)
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- I have been toying around with my Fractal animation again. I generate 90
- fractals at different magnifications and rotations in 3 dimensions and create
- a looping animation. In the past, I always used the Trusty /ram5 Ramdisk to
- view the animation. I started last week to load the animations onto my hard
- drive to see what the RamFast could do with it. The reason, I had not done
- this earlier is that I thought the animation would be too quirky if all of the
- frames were not able to stay in the cache. If however if you put all the
- frames of your animation sequence in one file in the Root directory of your
- optimized hard drive, the animation is smooth even if the number of frames
- overflow the Ramfast's cache. Before you get too excited, I am only using
- standard hires (280x192) at the moment.
-
- OK, the result:
- I found that the Ramfast could produce 20 frames per second animation using
- my 7Mhz Zip/ 1 Meg Ramfast GS with the Beagle Compiler when NOT all Frames
- could fit into the Cache. The number of frames rose to 24 frames per second
- when all the frames did fit into the cache.
-
- Now I shall work on Native mode animation, is there an easy way, or just a
- way to load video frames into the video memory in Bank $e1, fast?
-
- Ken
-