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then only enough of it to check the likely Ilnai product)„avoiding areas of solid color, making do with 180 dpi wherever possible, keeping pictures no larger than necessary to get the message across, and saving the costly 720 or 1,440 dpi efforts for really special jobs. This brings me to another aspect of the issue-pmfit taking. The Gillette company started it by making safety razors dirt cheap then making millions by selling costly razor blades. Kodak did the same with its first cameras, which were priced to fit the budgets of milUons but which required Kodak fihn at a hefty price.

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about lt, Nl starve and (gulp) die on you. According to S a ndal r epresentatives, Tkmagotchls have been selling at a rate of about one million per month in Japan, and the company hopesforworldwide 1997 sales of up to 25 miIhon. The main target market is female "tween" (girls within a few yean of 13), but a substantial number of malesand females ofall agesare fans of the toy. The price in Canada is about $25. With good care, a Tamagotchi will last around 21 days. The absobxterecord, with perfed nurturing, is about 29 days. According to the accompanying documentation, the internal battery can be replaced to xestart the life cycle from scratch. To sdenti6cally test the Tamagotchi, TCP acquired three evaluation units and gave them to neighborhood children, aged 12 to 15 (two females and one male). The Tamagotchis seemed io increase the sodal status of their caxegivexs,at least temporarily, heing an object of intense interthat contains a little LCD screen and a battery est to their classmates. The male Tamagotchi owner did not like powered microchip with a pre-proyanuned decision tree that runs an interactive "life cycle" for cleaning up its wastes, and the pet perished prethis simulated cyber pet from outer space. maturely. The females seemed margilna6y more When the user turns on the Tamagotchi for consdentious, although one caregiver feII sick and spent a day in bed, during which her the 6xst time, he or she becoxnesxesponsible for the care, feeding, deanirg and emotional health Tamagotchi, deprival of sustenance, perished, of the little thing. This nurturing aspect makes Fortunately, in both cases, the deceasedpets the Vamagotchi somewhat analogous to a tradi- we» resetandreturned to life.—JE tional doll, but unlike a doll, the Tamagotchi has a built-in clock, and chirps to demand care at reg- Ifniverslties plan px4vatwlahel IxCs and ular intervals. In effect, the Tamagotchi programs Ikence deals • KINGSTON, Ont. (NB) — A group its user to be an effective caregiver. of Canadian universities Is putting together a plan Using a simple set of input buttons and a to have perlnal computes built to theh sped6cadever graphic user interface, you can feed snacks tions for campus use. The universities axe aho

working on licensing arrangements with major so6waxevendorssopackagesinduded on students' PQ mn be lnduded m site.licexce ayeements. Three Ontario universities-Queen' s, the University of Waterloo, and the Univeisity of

Western Ontario-are involved in the project, along with Dalhousle Unlverslty In Halifax, ¹S. Ram Raju, former information centre manager at Dalhousle and the coordinator of the project, says the universities worked together to de6ne a PC design called Academyl that meets their academic needs, and has arranged with Sidus Systems Inc., a Toronto-based PC maker, to build systems to their spedfications. Other PC vendors have the option of customizing their hardware to meet the speci6cations, Raju added.-Grant Bxxckfer

pxoject was "classi6ed, and until they received their security dearmce, the women were denied access to the machine they wee supposed to work on. They had only "logical diayams to help them attack a problem. The programmers had to recon6gure the ENIAC for each problem solved: reshuNing cables, restacking bus trays, and resetting the operation switches on each component. Working this way, the six women automated artillery trajectory calculations done by hand throughout most of World War II. In 1947, the ENIAC was tumed into the a "stored-program" computer. As a result, the six women were among the only generation to pxogram it at the machine leveL Jean Bartik, one of the award recipients, commented on the honor. "What a wonderful pleasure for me to re:elve this award from fellow women in technology. After all these years, the ENIAC stBI seems like a miracle to me. Thank goodness I was in the right place at the right time to be one of the youp that helped ENIAC begin the Computer Age.—RichardBowers

INomen Ixxxnozexi as float programmers + SAN JOSE, Calif. {NB) — Womenin Technology International (WITI) hasannouncedthe recipients of the1997 Women in Science and Technology Hall of Fame awanL The award, which is sponsored by IBM, is given by WITt each year in recognition of outstanding contributions women have made to sdence and technology, and this year indudes the world's Brst proyammes. Honored this year are six women who were the first programmers to work on ENIAC (Electronic Numerical lntegrator and Calcxdator), the world's 6rst computer developed by the Anny in the early 1940s. The six women were themselves designated as "computexs," and were rated by the Anny at that time as "sub-professionals." The six ho norees are: Kay Mauchley Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, FrancesSpence, and Ruth Teitelbaum. EMAC, the Brst computer to use electronic tubes, was built a t t h e U n iversity of Apple announces Ilshzwelsht Pow«8eoh Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical k!00 • CU PERTINO, Calif. (NB) — Apple

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Bell Canada plans malor research lab • TORONTO (NB) — Bell Canada, the largest of Canada's regional telephone companies, will soon unveil plansfora hugeresearch and development faciTity, the company's president revealed. Speaking to the Empire Club in Toronto, John McLennan said Bell's new "software-basedservice

development organization" will be one of the largest research and development shops in Canada. McLennan went on to claim that "we hope and expect that this new organization will have the same-catalytic job and company-creating effect in Canada as the formation of HewlettPackard did in Silicon Valley four decadesago." A Bell Canada spokeswoman told Newsbytes that, beyond what McLennan said in his speech, no details are available on BeII's plans. Specifically, the company is not saying how much money it plans to invest in the project or how many jobs might be created;GrantBuckler

car's back seat, passengerscan use handheld controllers and wireless keyboards to access more interactive, stored and Internet content The displays are powered by several computers mounted in the car's tnrrdL The brains of the system include a portable IBM ThinkPad, an Internetgateway computer and a Sega Saturn game machine. To connect to the Internet, the Web car uses an ATgrT wireless digital cellular phone and a Metricom wireless modem. The armrest holds additional hardware for smart cards and handheld personal computing devices.—Patrick McÃenna

Mercedes prevlews Web ear • PALO ALTO, Calif. (NB) — Daimler-Benz Research Centre offidals say the "Web car" is the Mexedesof the future, but customers will have to wait five to 10 years before it becomes available. With one display screen in the front of the car and two built into the backs of the front seats, the first Web car previewed recently as a proof of concept. For saf ety reasons the "Cyber Mercede," a

A pple Canada c ut s P e r forma a n d Power8ook 1400 prices • MARKHAM, Ont. (NB) — Apple Canada Inc., following the lead of its Cupertino, California-based parent company, cut prices on notebook computers. Apple Canada said it lowered the prices ofPerforma products by $200 to $400, and reduced prices on PowerBook 1400 notebooks by as much as 30 percent.~rant Buckler Contact: AppleCanada, Website: httpI/www.apple.ca

Mercedes E420, is more interactive in the back seat, According to the company, a front display, built into the dashboard, will allow users toaccess navigation services and traffic conditions. In the

Compaq Canada announces MMX notebooks and new servers ~ RICHMOND HILL, Ont. (NB) — Compaq Canada Inc. has introduced the Armada 7700 line of notebook computers. List prices for the new notebooks start at $7,375, and the ArmadaStation Expansion Base is$1,332. The Armada 7?00 notebooks are available in Canada now, Compaq Canada said, Compaq Canada Inc. hasalso introduced the ProLiant 600Q and ProLiant 85QR servers, and added new models to its ProLiant 2MQ server line. All the new models are available now,

C omp a q Canada said. List prices are: $21,333 for a P roLi a n t 6000 wi th 2 00 M H z Pentium Pro processor, 5 12KB o f cache, and 12& MB of m emor y ; $5,359 for a ProLiant 850R with 200 MHz PentiumPro,256KB cache and 32 MB of memory; $10,666 for a ProLiant 2500 tower with 200 MHz Pentium Pro,512KB cache, and 64 MB of memory; and $11,237 for a similarly configured rack-mount ProLiant 2500. Compaq Canada also unveiled the Smart-2SL array controller, listed at $1,6QO,and 4/8 and 2/4 GB digital audio tape (DAT) drives at $1,785 and $1,252.— Grant Buckler What's New is compt/ed by David Tanoka, Grannr Brnnett, MeganJohnston, and /+Evans.

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what the major animation studios have been doing for the last few years. Disney, for example, hasn't used eels (painted acetate sheets) since The Little Mermaid in 1989. However, dedicated 2D animation software costs enough tomake Scrooge McDuck wince: Softimage Too nz, for i n stance, was used t o c r eate Amblimation'sBatta-and the cost of a single copy is in the range of $15,000. ItVhat we will explore in this article are the basics of how to use perlnal computers and a combination of off-the-shelf software to create animation for

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years later, TV animation got its start. Now, another 50 years later, with multimedia and Internet tech-

a dedicated animation package, but it certainly won' t cost as much either. It should go without saying that no amount of computer power can turn you into an animatorthere's no substitute for talent and a lot of hard work In a similar vein, this article will not teach you

nologies booming, there is yet another medium that seems to attract animated characters like a magnet. And with the increase in animated movies andTV shows, it seems that more people want to make things move than ever before. Traditionally, however, it has been difficult for aspiring animators to leam the craft, The sheer effort required to create dozens to hundreds of drawings for even a few minutes' worth of screen time is one test of your desire. Acquiring and consuming materials such as film, ink, paint„and the like is quite another, and can make learning the art prohibitive for aB but the most determined or cunning. Fortunately, the last decade has seen an increase in the speed and power of computers, and those computers are making it easier for people to hone their animation skills. Of course, if you mention computers and animation in the same sentence, most people immedi ately think of the Canadian-produced ReBoat, or the Disney/Pixar hit, Toy Story.But computers can also be used to create more traditional-looking, twodimensional (2D) animation. In fact, that's exactly

Xerographic process, this was done by hand with ink. Hand-inked eels offered the option of inking the outhnes with different colors, for a softer blending of foreground characters and objects to the background. Hand-inking was alm more expensive and tirnewonsuming. Xerography is significantly faster, but the ability to use colored outline is sacrificed. After inking, the eels are then flipped over and painted in. Traditionally, individual elements in a

scene — say, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd — are animated on different eels, which are then overlaid, one on top of the other, under the camera, with the painted background on the bottom. This allows objects and characters to pass in front of one another, and keeps the animator from

having to redraw elements that don't move.

how to animate; it is assumedthat you already have

After the animation is complete, it's time to shoot onto film. Armed with the exposure sheet, the camera crew knows how to hyer the eels, as weil as when and hourto perform the camera moves (tilts, pans,

a basic idea of what's involved, and are ready to make things move.

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It's helpful if we first look at the traditional animation process. This is an extremely abbreviated guide, highlighting only the points we need for this article. The first step (after having planned everything out on an exposure sheet) is to create the rough drawings and do pencil tests. The roughs are created in pencil, then shot on video or a Quick Action Recorder (QAR) to be previewed. After the roughs are approved or corrected, the work then goes thmugh deanup, where any extraneous lines or writing are eliminated from the rough pencils. The cleanedwp pictures are then transferred to acetate eels, usually by Xerography. Before the

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ding video or a big-budget feature film for release in theatres nation-wide, the editing process is crucial to creating a movie narrative.

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on personal computers. Inserting a sentence video editor to randomly access any segment in the middle of a typed page necessitates the of video and to make changes or apply a re-typing of the whole page (and possibly of number of special effects. all the following pages if one requires consisContinued onpage 31 Unear ansi non-linear eslltlniN tent formatting in the document). Traditionally, video editing is done using the But whereas a typewnter is relr physical medium of the videotape. This is atively inexpensive, the equip-

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The video capture card should be capable of compressing the very massive amounts of digital information processed from the video source. Without video compression, current hard drives cannot keep up with the flood of data flowing to and from the video capture

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the PC are being fused. The faster the processor, the faster the editing software creates, or in the terminology of the video editor: the faster it renders a movie by compiling the various raw video clips with transitions and special effects. But this comes with a word or two of caution. The CPU speed may not be as important as the speed of other components. For example, the capture card has built-in chips that ran accelerate the highly intensive number cmnching required in the rendering of a

may be simply a t emporary delay that requires waiting patiently until the manufacturer comes up with a software driver for the capture card to solve the problem. This has been the case with Truevision's Bravado 1000 capture card for the PC. In the case of the Pentium Pro, a miro technician advised over the phone that the company's DC30 capture card just does not work with the Pentium Pro chip.

video. Another thing to consider is the use of a special-effects card designed and made specifically for speeding up transitions or for certain special effects. These may accelerate video effects independently of the speed of the CPU, so that a Pentium 90 processor will render those effects just as quickly as a Pentium 133, if both used such an accelerator card. A more serious caution is that there are video capture cards for the PC that may not work with CPUs faster than 133 MHz. This

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Operetlrsg systems The entry-level capture cards for professional video making that give the biggest bang for the buck are cards that work with 32-bit chunks of information; that is, cards that work on operating systems like Windows 95

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simulated light rays are bounced oN, and in some cases, through — all objects in a scene, a renderer such as the one in Bryce can achieve stunning realism. The authors of the program have built into it the physical properties of many realworld objects and materials. After assigning the reflective characteristics of brushed gold

and pohshed gold to the ring and the refractive index of a genuine diamond to the gemstone, you simply click Render and, in a moment or two, a 3D rendering of the scene appears. With a turn of the program's virtual trackball, you are then able to setup and render another view of the scene in seconds.

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of the program is the addition of Boolean functions: the ability to add, subtract or intersect one object with another. Numerous complex geometric forms are supplied in the program's Object Libraries, and

KPT Bryce 2 For: Windows and Macintosh Pros: Powerful natural scenery renderers, good import features, improved interface. Cons: DXFfilter is flawed (update avaiiabie at Metatoois Web site); limited modeling tools, no animation features. For artists and designers used to working in a two-dimensional paradigm, working in 3D is literally like stepping into a whole new world. Now, you can design a scene once and view it from any angle, alter light sources and object textures on a whim, and make numerous other choices on the fly. Consider the simple examples shown here. The image above shows a simple 3D model of a ring built from a torus, a squashed

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models created in nearly any program. Unfortunately, the Windows version's

files cannot be exported to a Mac —but it can read

Mac Bryce files. Also, the current ver-

sion has no a nimat i o n capabilities, although animation is pmmised

for a future release-and several demos on the CD-ROM demenstrate animations created with an early prototype of the as yet unreleased "SuperBryce." A particularly cool feature of B ryce is i t s ability to import 2D

graphics and place them convincingly into 3D scenes,For example, the image above shews a two@imensional bitmap of a dog

made it too d ark in t h e original rendering. Issues like lighting and camera

positioning are no longer solely the concerns of photographers! Now, with Bryce or other modem 3D programs, you must set up the scene and light it convindngly to achieve a professional resultjust as a professional photographer uses the same techniques to take his or her images from the ordinary to the exceptionaL A little training — or at least reading — in this area would

which, in turn was followed by the acquisition of Specular International, makers of .Infini-D, Logomotion and other graphics tools for Mac and Windows. Previously, Metatools had acquired RTG, a company

known for its real-time 3l? graphicsand physical-modeling innovations. I predict a great year foi MetaCreations. Its combined product

lines are generally excellent, and the potential for synergy between produds like Ray Dream Designer, Detailer, Poserand Bryce(all

dehnitely pay off for those of us who aren't naturally inclined towards"drama." I found that an update on the Metatools

are now available for both Windows and

Web site (http Jhww.metatools.corn) greatly improved Bryce's DXF import capabilities.

Macintosh) is mind-boggling, At the Mac world expo in January,

Before installing the update, large DXF Ales often aborted with an error message, After

installing the new plug-in, I successfully saved DXF Alesfrom Extreme 3D, Ray Dream Designet and Caligari TrueSpaceand imported them into Bryce without problems. In fact,

I had better resultsusing DXF than Apple's3D Metafiie format. Brycepreservesobject hierarchies when models are imported, so compo-

that has been inserted into a 3I? scene. As

nents ef imported DXF Ales could easily be

long as the 2D image is fadng the camera, it looks convindng — it even casts shadowsand

subselected to apply different materials to the vaneus parts.

shows ripples and reflections in the 3D watet!

ative graphics software, is poised to become a thing of the past — at least in terms of its name, The company recently announced its i ntention t o ch a nge i t s n a m e to MetaCreations. This follows a merger with Fractal Design (which, some analysts have noted, was more like Fractal being acquired by Metateeis),

creates ultra-realistic fire, smoke, clouds, glass, water and other real-world textures with just a click or two. Although version 2's modeiing tools are mostly limited to primitive objects (poiyhedra, tori, etc.), organic shapes (recks, meuntains, etc.) and so on, its addition of DXF and 3DMF import solves what had been the biggest drawback of version 1. Without a doubt the most "artistic" ef the 3D programs on the market, Bryce is in a league of its own. It is a 3D program that is actually fun to use and utterly engrossing.

The best collection of models I came

acrosswasthe large library included with Ray the second image, we see the detail of our 2D Dream Studio and Ray Dream Designer. A subset of this collection (with a few changes dog — and a bit of dodgy aliasing amund its alphaxhannel mask. In this image, a spot- and additions) shipswith CorelDraw 6 and 7. light added a little All lighting to the "dark The Internet is also a great source of freely side" of the animal to improve its visibility, as downloadable 3D models. Bryce's sophisOcated ray-tradng renderer the bright sunlight coming Aom behind it By zooming in on the scene, asshown in

Metatoois' big thinker, Kai Krause, and musician Peter Gabriel demonstrated some forthcoming MetaCreations products that break

new ground in more ways than one—one of the demos showed Gabriel creating an image

Although Bryce's love-itwr-hate-it inter-

face is a bit of a challenge at Arst (I really like of a mountain by whistling! The company, best it, though), it is well worth the effort. Anyone known for Kai's Power interested in computer graphics, or even just Tools, KPf Bryce and interested in seeing one of the most sophistiKai's Power Goo has a cated user interfaces should check out the new family member. the demo version of Bryce. just-released Kai's Photo Want to see it for yourself? Downloadable Soap, a consumer-frienddemo versions for Mac and WIndows (13 MB ly U$$49 phot+editing and 17 MB respectively) are available from applicaOon that was afinalist fot Byte's Bestof the Metatool Website (seeaddressabove). For more info on Bryce, see my review of Bryce CeBIT97award.We expect Soap to be bun1.0 from TCP Nov. '94 (available online at dled with many low+est scanners and cansumermtiented digital cameras in the months htip Jhww.top.ea). Metateols, one of the big names in innov- ahead, just as Goo is today. See

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KiN.NRtjj{N 39 graphics gems Continued from page46 ing presets that can then be customized. This is a very good feature — asort of virtual photo studio. Hundreds of texture-mapped 3D sample models, which I found to be of better than average quality, and some of very high quality and detail. Models are easily browsable in icon form. Model libraries loaded from the CD-ROM are easily accessed the next time you start the program. Performance of the program is relatively good when large models, such as the 40 MB model of the Chichenitza archaeological site, are loaded. This huge fiie neariy brought Bryce to its knees, but RDD handled it well. Subjectively, the imagelooked much better when rendered in Bryce, though.

ing capabilities, enabling them to simulate complex textures such as snake scales, Previous versions of Ray Dream Designer have been reviewedseveral times in various issues ofThe Computer Paper,including Sept. '94 and Oct. '95. A book entitled Tiie Ital Dream Handbook, a collection of tutorials and examples from various artists edited by Craig Patchett and john Sledd, is now available from Charles River Media (ISBN 1486801-09-6), This book focuses on important issues such as lighting and composition, and is well worth a read by Ray Dream Designer/Studio or CorelDream 3D users. Recommended, along with some further study on the principles of staging, lighting and cIassical animation. These studies are as essential to those working in a digital paradigm as they continue to be for those working in the film, theatre and presentation industries, This book wisely emphasizes that a

good 3D rendering is asmuch about art as it is about science.

In May, Fractal announced its intention to ship version 5.0 of Ray Dream Studio in the third quarter of 1997. According to the company, the new version will include new object creation tools, new rendering effects and ThinkFish rendering technology. The upgrade

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also offers performance increases and support for symmetric multi-processing (SMP). It is expected to have a street price of $300. The company says upgrades will be $99, Fractal says Ray Dream Studio 5.0's new object creation tools include Mesh Form modeler, a vertex-level modeler that defines the contour and appearance of 3D models

using a selection of image manipulation tools and Boolean operations. Mesh Form special effects include fire, fog, clouds and fountain,s Fractal has also enhanced Ray Dream's shad-

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but the program allows you to define maps of virtually any size. We' re not especially big fans of Detailer's (AKA Painter' s) cluttered interface, but this tool works well — albeit a little more slowly than we'd like, even on a Pentium 150 or a PowerMac with 80 MB of RAM — and may be reasonably said to be the best in its class (MeshPaint and trueSpace 3 are also capable of "painting" directly on 3D models). If you want to do texture maps the way they ought to be worked with, this is the right tool. It sells for about US$495 (and is heavily discounted via mail-order).

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diferent numbers of control points or vertices. More info on Infini-D, including inforrnation on the forthcoming version 4.0, plus a large number of tips, utilities and downloadable models is at http: //www.geocllles.corn/ Silicon Valley/Hslghfs/3766/index. html.

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for a single platform.) lnAni-D provides no easy method of browsing libraries of models — a notable shortcoming. Infini-D's rendering features were good, but subjectively, the results did not look as good as the renderings of Bryce or Ray

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stream of bubbles" effect — just one of the m any effects such as smoke, fire,leaves,dust, explosions, etc., possible with particle systems. It's also worth mentioning that Extreme 3D's particle systems are missing some desirable features, such as collision detection. In practical terms, this makes a tree covered with leaf-shaped particles have leaves that pass through one another — not too realistic.

spaceship along a path. The results of this, and the other demo-reel examples, do not show off one of Lightwave 5.0's strengths: its organic animation capability, which the company calls MetaMation, lets you create a character animation using low-resolution objects for maximum efficiency. Then when you are set to r ender, LightWave automatically applies the Metaform algorithm to smooth out the object to the desired leveL This, Newtek claims, eliminates cross talk between bones and allows for more realistic skin folds, pinches, creases, and flexing. Indeed, Lightwave also includes a "Bones" feature that allows for joint compensation

For better or worse, the program uses the same interface that characterized the original Amiga version, as found on the Yideo Toaster, and was later marketed as a standalone apphcation on Amiga, Unix, Windows and now Mac. lt comes with a videotape-based tutorial that gets quite tiresome and goes on ad nauseum about basic concepts such as how to rotate and move a cube to and fro, but may be appropriate for a person who has never worked with a 3D application. (Really, are these the kind of people buying Lightwave?) At any rate, the demo takes you through a

Newtek Llghtweve 3D (Mac version S.oc tested) Pros: Powerful modeling, rendering and compositing tools. Popular in production environmentsLighiwave skills are job skills. Cons: Modeler and renderer are separate modulesAmiga-heritage interface is frequently clumsy and non-intuitive. No online Help, at least on the Macver-

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ronment, so if you are lucky enough to have a PC with more than one CPU, NT is clearly the way to go. As for hardware video acceleration, the following quote from Eric D. Wiesen of Xert

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use, that its Physique mesh-morphing tools were nothing but trouble, and so on. After reading the product manuals and getting some valuable tips in Animation magazine from Kinetix product support technidan Adam Felt, we suspect that the majority of the complainers are probably struggling along with a pirated version of the program. Character Studio's Biped and Physique tools

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The reason the Epson design won me over, however, was that it provided for a lot of modularity and choice, To start with, I always had the option of shooting either up to 60 low-resolution pictures at 320x240 or 30 high-resolution pictures at the sharper 640x480 resolution level. I found that the latter produced the best results and I usually had a notebook computer on hand to "dump" the pictures to when they were taken, so the memory of the cam-

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biiities get into the mass market. In which medium does digital cameras such as the QuickTake 200 excel? Well, if you are outputting an image to a computer video display or television, then this is the camera for the job,

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When you snap a picture, it is saved onto a 2 MB (4 MB optional) storage card that resides in a camera slot. On a standard 2 MB card you can store up to 30 good-quality or 20 high-quality images. If you prefer, a mode dial allows you to annotate date/time stamps to your images. You can also lock protect and, of course, delete unwanted images. Under a rubber-sealed flap are housed two

ports that allow you to view your images on a computer screen or television set. Apple provides the software and cable so you can upload images to your computer through its serial port. I found myself being impatient while waiting for images to appear on the screen. This is due to the speed limitations of the serial connection. Once the imagesare uploaded, you can save or open them up in any image-editing application. Alternatively, you can view images on your TV in a slideshow format (via the bundled NTSC video cable). However, I

found image quality —sharpness, color —to be much better on a computer screen. The QuickTake 200 can be powered by an AC adapter, or for portability, four AA batteries. I recommend using the AC adapter whenever you can, because the longevity of alkaline batteries is disappointing. Despite being more expensive, you' re probably be better off (in the long run) using AA lithium batteries.

Software A comprehensive software bundle comes on CD-ROM with this package. Camera Access provides easy-to-use image-viewing and image-managing features when you hook your camera to your Mac's serial port. Also included are Adobe Photo Deluxe (image editing), Adobe Pagewill (Web site creation) and PictureWorks NetCard (email image annotation). Adobe also provides a plug-in so you can directly upload images into Photoshop.

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mous): The siz most important words: "I admit I made a mistake."

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A manager's job is to recognize what stage the employee is at, and to assist and encourage them to progress along the ladder to their highest level of capability. Pushing too hard may sometimes discourage and frustrate staff who may have a different learning pace.

The two most important words: "Thank you. The one most important word: "We" The least important word: "I

i.eadershlp style A leader is one who is in control, takes charge of a situation, and is decisive. A good leader or manager is fair, firm, and consistent, as well as flexible. Being flexible doesn't mean that you have to change your personality, You can be firm and still be friendly; you can be decisive and still be polite. You can give someone more freedom without giving away the company. The better you are at knowing how to treat your employees, the more effective you will be as a manager. And the employeremployee relationship will be more satisfying to both parties.

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machine's main functions will be.If you flnd that your tasks are very basic and won' t require the best components money can buy,

we would still recommend that you rernember to plan ahead. Saving yourself a few bucks today can be troublesome down the road,

especially if you find your requirements change significantly, or that you suddenly need to do soinething you hadn't planned on initially,

First and foremost, plan on getting some extra RAM. You' ll find that most systems today ship with 16 MB as standard, but for an extra $100 or so, you can upgrade that to 32 MB. All of the systems we looked at this

month had 32 MB included «s specified in our criteria to the vendors. Although 16 MB may be adequate for most needs, you' ll flnd that the extra 16 MB will go a long way in improving your system's performance, especially if you do a fair bit of multi-tasking. Besides, RAM prices are at an all time low, so why not spend the extra few bucks? It' s definitely a worthy investment, and you never know what prices will be like tomorrow.

tions want to own anywhere from 30 to 100

choppy sound are a thing of the past.

MB of your precious drive space, And if you' re

Fmm Imation comes a new technology also never before seen, the new LS-120 drive. This new drive uses LaserServo technology to

the somebody who likes to do "full" installs, you could easily be looking at up to 250 MB in some instances,

cent to 400 percent. The larger primary cache alone accounts for an Il percent increase in

overall system performance even without MMX-specific software. We first confirmed this in September of

have a 2 GB hard drive, but you know the story — a few megs here, a few rnegs there, and before you know it, you get the all too famil-

offer 120 MB of storage on a 3.5-inch disk virtually identical in shape and size to a standard 1.44 MB floppy. The LS-120 spins faster than a standard floppy drive, has a faster access time, and is a neat idea in general,

iar "Insufficient Disk Space" message staring

although a few years overdue.

you in the face. By doing a bit of hard drive pricing, you will quickly realize that in many cases, spending anextra$SO can buy you 500 or 600 MB more storage space! For example, at the time of writing this report, the typical street price

for a 2.5 GB Western Digital hard drive was

The drive is also fully backwards compatible with your old floppy disks, and you use a standard EIDE connector to hook it up to yom existing hard drive or CD-ROM connector, Note too that nearly every system this time around makes use of a larger 512KB

$338, On the other hand, the 3,1GB Western

Level-2 (or secondary) cache. If you want to

a score of 145 onour benchmark suite. This

Digital sold for $375, So why not spend the

squeeze every last drop of performance from your system, this certainly helps, though not

time around, even the slowest systein in the survey was quicker than the fastest 166 MHz system to date. Our fastest system this month

It may not seem like that much when you

extra $37 and get yourself the extra 600 MB/ Such smart choices will go a long way towards extending the life of your trusty PC.

So what else Is new? By looking over our comparimn chart in this month's Test Lab, you' ll notice some things never before seen in the PCs we' ve tested. First, there is a new chipset from Intel already being used by many vendors, the 430TX. Its main features include better power manage-

greatly, To take full advantage of a cache larg-

'96 when we discovered one of the systems was using a pre-release version of the new processor. The price difference between a 166 MHz standard Pentium processor and a

166 MHz MMX processor is currently about $80. If you' re looking to buy a new system in the near future, we would deflnitely recommend spending the extra $80 on the new variety. It's worth mentioning that the fastest 166 MHz system we*vetested was from Dell, back in Deceinber of last year. The system achieved

er than 2S6KB, you need to be under an operating system such as Windows NT or UNIX, but that's another discussion altogether.

came fromMynix Technology,and achieved

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an impressive score of 198, which is 36.5percent fasterthan the 166 MHz Dell XPSsystem

from December,

After watching the price of RAM go from $38 to $70 per MB overnight a few yearsback,

ment for both mobile and desktop PCs, sup. port for the new Ultra DMA (ATA-3, VIDE}

anything's possible. The price of hard drives is also dropping,

interface, and optimization for the new line of MMX processors. For full details, visit

vey is the MM X p rocessors from Intel, Basically, you' re getting a Pentium processor with 57 new instructions and a larger 32KB primary (or Level-1) cache. In the months to follow, we should be seeing a slew of new software titles designed to take advantage of these

slowly but surely. This is another area we rec-

http: //www.intel.corn/design/pcisets/

new processors,

of applications. All machines were conflgured

ommend you give some thought because of all the variables involved. First, remember that the storage requirements for new applications are always increasing. Just a couple of years ago a "typical" install took a f ew megabytes. Today, you' ll find many applica-

predb ref/430tx/. Also new to this month's review are the latest CD-ROM drives from Panasonic. With 24x speeds, these drives offer much higher

In a nutshell, MMX technology allows software developers to program their code so that it uses fewer instructions to accomplish the same tasks. According to estimates, software designed for MMX processors will offer overall improvements ranging from 50 per-

to run in a resolution of 800x600 with a 16bit color depth (65,536 colors).

transfer rates and lower access times, making multimedia applications fly. Jerky video and

se e

We asked vendors to send us machines conflgured with 166 MHz MMX processors and

32 MB of RAM. We left the remaining system components up to them, as long as they fit into the mid-range" category. Our tests were conducted using the BAPCo benchmark suite

A-Olsen One of the first to arrive in our Lab this month was this A-Open system from

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Included in the system is the 166 MMX processor, 512KB of secondary pipelined cache, 32 MB of EDO RAM, a Trident 96BS video card with 1 MB of DRAM onboard, a 16bit sound card from Yamaha, a Goldstar 16x CD-ROM drive, a 2.6 GB drive from Fujitsu and an Acer33.6Kbps voice/faxmodem. The machine managed to achieve a score of 165 on our BAPCo suite; slightly less than average due greatly in part to the slower Trident video card.

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Overall, this machine would make a great starter system for any home, especially considering its low price tag of just over $2,000. We would, however, recommend that you spend another $100 or so and swap the Trident card for a high-performance card. The addition of a Matrox Mystique with 2 MB onboard, for example, will do wonders for this system.

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inside the box — a new Sporster X2 56Kbps faxmodem. Combine all of this with a pair of

jvgb T he s ystem w e received from STD this month is a great example of what you can buy for just under $2,000. Inside the box is a 166 MMX processor, 512 K B of pipelined cache and 32 MB of EDO RAM. The video subsystem consists of an 53 VIRGE 3D video card e quipped wit h 2 MB of E D O R A M . Performance on this card will not be on par with that of the higher-end models, but it wN meet the needs of most consumers. Multimedia is delivered with the help of the new and alreadypopular 24x CD-ROM drive from Panasonic and the well-known Sound Blaster AWF32 from Creative Labs. Storage needs are met with a 2,1 GB drive from Quantum With the included 33.6Kbps Wisecom modem, you' ll waste no time getting online the minute you unpack the

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Yamaha M15 speakers,a m icrophone and a score of 188 on our benchmark suite, and you have the makings of an exce))ent system at a very competitive price. Ultlnet Always ready to provide us with loaded

systems at very low ' . prices, Ultinet h a s : once again managed to build a system that packs a punch when it comes to raw performance and p r ovides high-quality components at the same time while maintaining an aggressively priced machine. This month's system is powered by a 166 MMX processor, 512KB of Level-2 cache and 32 MB of KDO RAM, all on a 430HXbased ASUS motherboard. The use of a Matrox Millennium video card with 4 MB of WRAM onboard and a 3.2 GB Quantum Fireball hard drive helped this system to achieve a high score of 187 on our benchmark suite. Also found in the mini-tower of this machine is a high speed 24x CD-ROM drive f rom Panasonic, a Sound Blaster 16 sound card from Creative

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word processor's icon on PaperPort's "desktop," PaperPort automatically handles the conversion of the scan into text via OCR — neatl Similarly, other utilities make it easy to fax, print or edit photos and other scanned images. HP scanners include a feature called AccuPage, which increases their accuraqt in OCR tasks by reevaluating and adjusting contrast and brightness values on a line-by-line basis as the image is scanned. However, AccuPage scans are somewhat slower — we usually leave it turned off. It is worth mentioning that HewlettPackard scanners are among the few brands of scanners due to have built-in support in the forthcoming "Memphis" version of Wmdows. Memphis (AKA Windows 98) will reportedly

nant position in the marketplace, and virtually assures that the graphics or OCR software package you buy will support HP's products, Unfortunately, the system's Symbios SCSI card wants to use I/O 220, which most soundcards already use. Fortunately, you ran change the I/O address of the Symbios card through Win95's System/Device Manager= although this is not a task many beginners would relish. In conclusion, the HP SP enjoys wide distribution, but its setup procedure, image quality and value are only so-so. The PaperPort software is this bundle's strongest feature. Hewlett-Packard 5$ sheet-fedscanner Suggested retail pdce: $369

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eight characters. (We had named our directory "Photoshop"; we had to type "PHOTOS-1" to get the Agfa software to recognize it.) Also, the installer forced us to run several different Setup programs to install the various components. Worse, the scanner had to be turned on before the computer in order for it

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Fotosnap is a shnplistic on~ck scanning utihty. We received occasional "scanner initialization errors" with this utihty. Themore full-featured FotoLook includes a number of

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for you to take people or objects from one

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Printing to your 7-shirt continued from page100 you know what he means. As a test, I purchased ironwn transfers from another manufacturer and used them on my Epson. The output was perfect, Be forewarned though, this was a single, unofficial experiment. Experiment at your own risk! The paper itself is smooth on the ironing side and coarse on the transfer side. In my test, I found the paper jams easily and works bestiflhere are a few sheets of regular paper

iron must be on maximum setting with no steam or moisture. An ironing board is not a good surface for this procedure as it usually has small holes below the ironing board cover. To

the backing once the transfer is ironed on. Although each printer is different, it is essential that you select the right kind of paper in your printer setup before printing. On the Epson machines this means select-

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the transfer. In which case, re-applying the iron will solve the difficulty but re-heating inakes the image fuzzy because the colors begin to bleed. The blending of different colored dots, which causes the image to look out of focus, is

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too long. Your new creation will last longer if washed insidewut in cold water. The dryer is fme if used on the "normal" setting.

Immediately upon removing the heat, the transfer's backing must be peeled off. If the backing is not removed quickly it will stick to

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100 to 9,600 dots per inch (dpi), scanning full size or redudng it, black/white as hnes or with etc. I wanted about half the cover, so I clicked "preview" and then "grabbed" the dashed-line box and resized it around what I actuagy want as a file. Then dicked "scan" and in about a

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As well, many of the aspects of lus personal life are glossed over, induding the failure of his first marriage, which ended in divorce after 30 years.Admittel dythe book's main focus is on the working of the corporate cuituns Cray helped to establish, but don't think that this book will be a compelling biography of Cray the man. By the time Cray met his untimely death as the result of injuries sustained in a car accident in 1996, the supercomputing industry he' d helped found had changed dramatically. In the

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