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- Spheres
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- by Ian Cackett
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- Spheres is a raytraced animation of rotating mirrored spheres.
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- To begin the animation either click twice on its icon on the
- Workbench screen or type 'Spheres' from the CLI.
- To end the animation at any time simply click the left mouse button.
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- The individual frames were raytraced using Eric Graham's SSG (Scene
- Simulation Generator). This simulates the rays of light within a scene
- and creates shadows and reflections as they would appear in the real world.
- Each frame was compressed using FrameClip, a utility of mine which
- works out the differences between each frame and the one before and stores
- only these. This means that only the first frame needs to be stored
- completely and the others are reduced to just over 7K each.
- The compressed frames were merged into one file which is played back
- by Spheres using hold and modify mode to allow a greater number of colours
- to be displayed at one time.
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- NOTE:- The files 'firstframe' and 'otherframes' must be present in the root
- directory of the disk for Spheres to work.
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