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Tiny Turtle · 01-09-2004, 04:33 AM

Clint,
I just re-read your post above about the animations already existing so why can't they make a SS out of it. Well, the greatness of Mr. Sachs' work isn't so much how realistic the fish appear, but more that they can look like that on your or mine computer. Compared to 3D objects in movies, the SS fish are mede up of amazingly few polygons (cue for Morgan to post the polygon count again) and still manage to look like the real thing.
Now a dinosaur is just so much more complex an object which might explain why Spielberg & Co didn't port their T-Rex to a ScreenSaver...

/Tiny Polygon Count

Imagine a "Steven Spielberg Screen Saver Studio", – Logical acronym SSSSS

01-09-2004, 04:33 AM	#18
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Clint, I just re-read your post above about the animations already existing so why can't they make a SS out of it. Well, the greatness of Mr. Sachs' work isn't so much how realistic the fish appear, but more that they can look like that on your or mine computer. Compared to 3D objects in movies, the SS fish are mede up of amazingly few polygons (cue for Morgan to post the polygon count again) and still manage to look like the real thing. Now a dinosaur is just so much more complex an object which might explain why Spielberg & Co didn't port their T-Rex to a ScreenSaver... /Tiny Polygon Count Imagine a "Steven Spielberg Screen Saver Studio", – Logical acronym SSSSS Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.