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To: Justin Banks who wrote (14287)	11/20/1997 3:03:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>Modern graphics systems & methods: Evans and Sutherland Surely you're joking ;)<<< Well, no, I'm not. Of course what I consider modern in computer graphics, like raster graphics vs vector, will probably amuse you. Bitmaps. All that stuff. Go read SIGGRAPH publications from the 1970's and early 1980's. Back when I used to have lunch with all the other SIGGRAPH attendees in the same room at the same time(!), evans and sutherland was a primary force. And still doing good work, maily I think in military sims. They invented the business that SGI is in, along with a few dozen others like Cray (yeah, I know SGI bought Cray.) But E&S really was more important in graphics than Cray, and way predates SGI. >>>P.S. I heard today that Netscape is building a browser with an X-server plugin && support for something like WinDD. Have you heard this? Is it old news?<<< Dunno. >>>P.S. #2 DVD isn't designed for broadcast use, is it? Yes. The standard is actually a flexible set of resolutions and methods that you can use on DVD, DVT(tape), PC boards, firewire (which the sony cameras come with, and encompasses all present and many future (hopefully) broadcast standards. It got a little complicated at the end, due to the desire of some countries to have their own new broadcest standards to make it harder to foreign 'propaganda' to get in (funny furin ideas), and also the usual screwing the consumer got by getting ddrives that won't write, though this format is designed writable from the beginning. Anyhow, in video, this is it. There is no direction toward anything else. FWIW, there are subformats suitable for authoring special effects for movies, ala you-know-who. Plus, you can just use these as data disks. No problem, except the movie companies are going to try to make damn sure that is very expensive, a proposition that the manufacturers are happy to be forced in to. I don't know if they will succeed this time, because there are no fundamental writing problems like there are with CD. Actually you can use them for anything. They hold more than a laserdisk, and it's digital, so conversion to them for editing will be swift, and has been apace for a year or more. Chaz