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You may laugh, but this is amazingly close to the truth. In about 1975, I
was a consultant to an unnamed company, whose initials are IBM. The task was
to record some of the earliest 3-D computer animation. After hours at Thomas
Watson Research Center, the most powerful existing computer spent about 30
minutes creating a single image of 3-D wire frame animation generated by a
robot that was recording its own movements. I set up a stop-motion camera to
record each of these images off the monitor as it was created. The resulting
animated 35mm film was the only way that we could capture and save these
images. Needless to say, it worked beautifully.
Regards,
Paul Neshamkin
pauln -at- helpauthors -dot- com
MS Help MVP
ComponentOne Doc-To-Help MVP and Certified Trainer
WexTech MVP, Certified Doc-To-Help Trainer
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We set up an SLR 35mm on a tripod in front of the monitor, set up white
floodlights, turn off the fluorescent lights (flicker) -- have not found a
good refresh rate for the monitor yet -- zoom on the display area of the
monitor, set up the screen as we want to capture it, shoot about 20 shots
(the scan/refresh thing), process the film as slides (we are getting a
digital Canon body), scan the slides using a dedicated slide scanner, open
the result in Photoshop CS, edit the color depth and pixel count, save as
TIFF, and import into FrameMaker.
It gives us pretty good results!!!!
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