| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
There are a couple of new demos making the rounds. RTCUBES7 is a real-time
animation of a room full of seven solid, shaded cubes bouncing around
at high speed. This is not a wimpy page-flipping routine, but real
time animation. The demo is a sample of some code that the author
is including in a soon-to-be-released, must-see-it-to-believe-it
(his words) program he is working on.
The second demo is a robotic arm simulator. It is fully
Intuition-ized, and allows the user to animate a robot arm's wrist,
shoulder, and elbow joints. It's actually pretty decent!
The files are to be found in...
JAKE::USER2:[ACCIARDI.AMIGA]RTCUBES7.ARC
JAKE::USER2:[ACCIARDI.AMIGA]ARM.ARC
There is no Icon for RTCUBES7, so the program must be launced from
CLI. Unfortunately, the author did not include a way to stop the
demo, so you'll have to re-boot. ARM comes with it's own Icon,
and is properly Amiga-ized.
Both files were uploaded with XMODEM from COMM132. The ARChives
were created with ARC23.
Enjoy!
Ed Acciardi
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| 446.1 | HYSTER::DEARBORN | Trouvez Mieux | Wed Apr 08 1987 10:54 | 9 | |
Is RTCUBES7 the one where the little cubes leave trails behind them
as they move around?
If it is, I found the Robot Arm much more interesting. It even
gives you the option of wire-frame or solid...if only the program
did something practical, or could do extended movements...
I guess I am hard to please.
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| 446.2 | ... | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Wed Apr 08 1987 12:05 | 5 | |
No, that old demo s*cks compared to this one. This one is a bunch
of tumbling cubes that zoom toward and away from you. They are
bouncing around in a room, and as they zoom in and out, the true
perspective is preserved. Also, the cubes' relative position from
the observer is maintained, as they pass in front of each other.
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