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- From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
- Subject: Re: The Death of the Juggler
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.064328.3245@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: Juggler II: Jugglement Day
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 06:43:28 GMT
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- In article <jbono.0840@tension.UUCP> jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono) writes:
- >In article <BxICHF.HzH@fc.hp.com>, koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
- >>Steve Koren (koren@fc.hp.com) wrote:
- >>> The Juggler has died; long live the juggler!
- >
- >What we really need is a new juggler, in 24-bit. When 16-bit audio comes out,
- >the juggler should be able to speak that as well. The juggler may be dead, but
- >let's have the mad scientists work on Juggler, Jr. Any takers?
-
- It'd be pointless to just make a new animation of a guy juggling in 24 bits.
- The original Juggler looked fine. What we need is something technically
- impressive.
-
- For example, using something like the Cycleman object in Imagine, make a
- juggler animation with a near-photorealistic person juggling various
- objects, such as a monitor running live video (the sound from which can
- switch back and forth in the stereo 'picture'), various objects morphing in
- midair (not just the 2-D morphs of, say, Imagemaster or Morph+, though they
- could be included too), some funky stuff going on in the background, and
- some interesting camera movements to round it off. It's not inconceivable
- that you could get this to run in 768x480 HAM-8 on a 4000, especially if you
- loaded the uncompressed frames off a SCSI HD.
-
- Given the tools I have available to me, I could do this myself if I had the
- talent. (experience, yes, talent, no...) Too bad Newtek is so focused on
- the outdated technology of the Toaster to release another of those nifty
- Demo Reels for AGA. It was the Newtek Demo #1 that made my eyes drool at a
- computer for the first time... (I'd been working with various kinds of
- machines for 7 years but I'd never thought of them as visually stunning)
-
- . <<<<Infinite K>>>>
-
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