POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.text.scene-files : Amiga Juggler : Re: Amiga Juggler Server Time
15 May 2024 03:52:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Amiga Juggler  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 13 Mar 2008 08:02:38
Message: <47d925ee$1@news.povray.org>

> "zman" <zma### [at] thezbuffercom> wrote in message 
> news:web.47d816c5df0163a4f66930fa0@news.povray.org...
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/juggler.html
>>
>> figured someone would have reproduced such a classic given how many 
>> POV ray
>> files have been created over the years.
> 
> http://0mniverse.com/anims/amiga-like_juggler.gif
> 
> This isn't exactly a replica, just put it together after reading this in 
> the early morning hours here.
> 
> That was an interesting story about this juggler, I hadn't seen it 
> before... or don't remember it from so many years ago. I used to stare 
> at the stuff on the Amiga displays in store windows, too.  ;^)
> 
> Here's the rather simplistic (yet long) SDL you can try to work with if 
> you want. Also uses the oscillating clock from clockmod.inc by Chris 
> Colefax, done so I could move the arms. No doubt this could be improved 
> upon so I leave that up to you! (Wow! it's a longer file than I thought! 
> sorry). Especially badly done, perhaps, is the ultra simple (and 
> separate) splines for ball motions. First thing that came to mind I tried.

Balls look OK to me, the arms have some weird movements...


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