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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
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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

4759.0. "Boston Computer Society Amiga" by VICE::JANZEN (A Refugee From Performance Art) Wed May 22 1991 13:26

	I went to the Boston Computer Society Amiga meeting last night.
	It was a general meeting with a focus on the latest rendering
	software.  I went in the expectation of meeting other people
	with similar interests, some gurus, and talking up AlgoRhythms.

	I was a half-hour late because no one on campus knew where building
	E51 was; I walked half-way across campus before finding it.
	I couldn't get in; all the doors were locked.  I went home
	
	Tom
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4759.1addendumVICE::JANZENA Refugee From Performance ArtWed May 22 1991 13:332
	did I mention that I live 35 miles from Boston?
	Tom
4759.2KALI::PLOUFFAhhh... cider!Wed May 22 1991 14:0917
    Tom,
    
    Sorry to hear that.  I went to the meeting and it turned out to be a
    good discussion of Imagine, Sculpt 3d, 3d Professional, Turbo Silver
    and Pagerender 3d.  Not on a high technical level.  We also saw Mark
    Thompson's video submitted to SIGGRAPH.  He rendered about 1000 frames
    using Lightwave 3d over a five week period, with excellent results.
    
    The locked doors are unfortunately an MIT policy.  Due to the recent
    war, the Department of Transportation building has been unavailable,
    and MIT has picked up the slack.  Last night there were three BCS
    groups meeting in the same building as the Amiga group.  However, MIT
    is rather paranoid about nighttime access to their facilities, and
    generally closes doors to all groups a short time after the start of
    meetings or classes at night.
    
    Wes
4759.3ULTRA::KINDELBill Kindel @ LTN1Wed May 22 1991 14:5914
    Re .2:
    
>   The locked doors are unfortunately an MIT policy.  ...  Last night
>   there were three BCS groups meeting in the same building as the Amiga
>   group.  However, MIT is rather paranoid about nighttime access to their
>   facilities, and generally closes doors to all groups a short time after
>   the start of meetings or classes at night.
    
    M.I.T. is in a less-than-spiffy part of Cambridge.  Even 25 years ago,
    most outlying buildings were locked at night and people were routinely
    warned to watch for Cambridge "urchins", who would take anything that
    wasn't bolted down.  Kendall Square may have been renovated within the
    last decade, but the problem remains.
4759.4radiosityVICE::JANZENA Refugee From Performance ArtWed May 22 1991 15:355
	Did anyone mesntion radiosity rendering for the Amiga?
	Incidentally, I have started using dkb trace.  Is anyone else
	fooling aroudn with that?
	anyone ever sign on dkb's bulletin board in Chicago?
t
4759.5POBOX::ANDREWSI'm the NRAWed May 22 1991 16:208
    I've kinda fooled around with it for about 1 day or two.  I got it to
    compile under VMS and messed around with that.  I live in the area of
    the BBS, so I end up calling once or twice a week.  There is not that
    much there in the way of .dat files,  mostly .gifs of stuff people have
    done.  The postings are interesting though.  Several people who have
    WAY more time than I do to mess around with this stuff than I do.
    
    Rob