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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Subject: The Death of the Juggler
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:52:57 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- The Juggler has died; long live the juggler!
-
- Dunno if folks new to the Amiga world will know what this is, but
- old-timers like myself will probably remember that 1986 vintage Eric
- Graham demo. It was, as far as I am aware, the first popular ray traced
- animation done on the Amiga. The rendering software could only render
- spheres (this was before commercial 3D rendering packages), so the
- juggler was made up entirely of colored spheres. It looked great in its
- day; there was nothing else really comparable.
-
- Anyway, it no longer works on an Amiga 4000. It did survive from 1.1 to
- 2.04 though.
-
- Our esteemed Juggler has finally passed away.
-
- - steve
-