TITLE: 3D Coolness
NAME: Kevin Lynn
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: klynn@uswest.net
TOPIC: Microcosms
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RENDERER USED: Aladdin 4D
TOOLS USED: MainActor
HARDWARE USED: Amiga 2000/030
VIEWING RECOMMENDATIONS:
set your viewer to auto-repeat/loop
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
One of thos snow domes, resting on the window sill on a
hot, sunny day.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
A venerable old Amiga died making this animation!  Which 
is why it isn't rendered at a higher resolution. 

Set your viewer to loop / auto-repeat to get the
intended effect.

The modeling and animation were done using an Amiga product 
called Aladdin 4D.  This is a nifty little commercial
app. that features heirarchical path-based animation, support
for using animations as texture maps, and several other 
innovative features not usually seen in ~$200 packages.
If you're interested, check it out at www.novadesign.com

Then penguin and the fan were modeled as polygon meshes.
Some of the snowflakes were generated by custom software.
The sun is a Aladdin "gas" object.

The animation was converted to mpg using MainActor running
on a windoze box.