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- From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
- Subject: Re: Brilliance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.152837.26253@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: DC's new DPaint-killer
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 15:28:37 GMT
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- In article <1di709INN211@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein) writes:
- >Has anyone seen/used DC's "Brilliance" yet?
-
- I saw it at the Pasadena WOC. It's fast, powerful, easy to use,
- system-friendly, does everything DPaint IV does, and much, much more, and
- then some too.
-
- Or at least that's what the guy in the booth said.
-
- I didn't actually spend much time there; for me, the Amiga 4000 and the DMI
- booth kinda dominated the show. Apparently Brilliance is _not_ the long-
- awaited DCTV animation software - it does not directly support DCTV any more
- than DPaint does, which seems very strange. (the DCTV software is still "in
- the works") But from what I saw, it seemed reasonably fast, and had an
- awful lot of stuff in the tool boxes... so one can infer a certain amount of
- power, if not ease of use. Full AGA support which I hope means aligned
- reads during anim playback...
-
- In the flyer, it shows some of the same demo pictures shipped with DCTV,
- such as the Froggie. It has the DCTV look'n'feel in its interface.
- Supports multiple levels of undo/redo, "real world" airbrush modes, multiple
- brushes and animbrushes, multiple picture and anim buffers, tweening and
- morphing, enhanced magnify mode, and so on (lots of sentences beginning with
- "powerful" or "more" in the flyer...). They also state "By the same people
- that created Deluxe Paint" which could mean a lot of different things.
-
- They claim that some Brilliance operations on a 68000 are faster than the
- equivalent DP IV operation on an '030. They also claim an expected ship
- date of a week ago. (MSRP $249)
-
- I believe it has potential, but before I throw out my trusty DPaint IV I'll
- have to see it.
-
- . <<<<Infinite K>>>>
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