ST henge is the product of many hours of work, 
  
obviously.  I feel it is the best I have ever done.  I would like 
  
to thank my friends for their help and input.  To David Hagood 
  
(hey-good) the most for his help on the project. And his 
  
many ideas on fleshing out an animation which started by me saying 
  
one night "I'd like to do an animation of a drone flying across 
  
the Stonehenge object" to which the reply was "If you want to do 
  
it right I have a suggestion......" He allowed me to use his MEGA 
  
2 and hard drive for the bigger compilings. We scribbled object 
  
paths on placemats in a pizza resturant for the rough draft which 
  
had the camera sitting in one spot and rotating, then moving the 
  
camera along the same path. Then I had the inspiration that is the 
  
current paths, move the camera along its own path individually 
  
from the drone (now called HULL) and just keep pointing the camera 
  
at the object. The name HULL is a mistake, I tried to make a model 
  
of the Titanic the night I got CyberSculpt, I used the bend 
  
function twice, then tried to "straighten" out the bent object, it 
  
didn't work. What happened was I had this object that looked kind 
  
of like a punk rock robot with a "Gigerish" head (H.R. Giger 
  
designed the creature from "ALIEN"). I liked it but people kept 
  
asking if the head was a puff of steam, creativity bit the dust. Also 
  
I need to thank the person who created the Stonehenge object, it 
  
was included with the original CAD 3-D 1.0, I used to own the 
  
program but I donated it to a user group auction. If that human 
  
(or otherwise) would write me with the info I would be more than 
  
happy to give them credit where credit is due.   
  
The base animation fits on a 1 meg machine, but when I added 
  
titles it pumped it up about 50K-75K. Let me say that animations 
  
that waste a lot of memory just flipping the title screen up or 
  
bring the first frame up are making people leary of downloading 
  
them. The two offenders I have in mind (and I am not saying they 
  
are bad animations) are Red Rock Canyon and Bob the Blob. BTB can 
  
  
  
be cut from 158K to 73K by cutting out all the titling and putting 

it on one screen with the body of the animation, I know, I tried it.

Krusk is improving but when he made RRC he was pulling teeth to make it. 
  
There were two things he could have done to make it easier. I made 
  
an animation called CONTOUR just before he released RRC (mine 
  
still exists in only a few machines). I just used the fractal 
  
generator written by Tom Hudson and created 2 20*20 fractals with 
  
water running completely along one edge. This will take the 
  
longest, I spent about 20 minutes here. Go into CAD 3-D or CyberScuplt 
  
and stretch the objects until they nearly fill the universe. Put 
  
both river sections together and you have your valley. Next open 
  
all three views and then double click on the rotate icon. You 
  
should see crosshairs at this point on all three windows. At the 
  
top of the active window will be three numbers, click in the 
  
windows where you want your object/camera to go and write down the 
  
numbers. Feed these numbers directly into the DEFPT funtion in 
  
your CyberControl code.  The numbers won't be exact but with a 
  
spline they don't have to be. I spent about 2 hours on CONTOUR. 
  
That includes 2 compilings one solid, one wire, the top half of 
  
the screen on the solid one was pasted on to the wire frame one. 
  
It looks pretty good and is about twice the length of animation of 
  
RRC. The latest Krusk animation I have is HOLE IN ONE which is an 
  
improvement over RRC.


          If any of this is old news then I apologize, I don't 
  
have a phone so I don't keep up on the latest developments via 
  
BBSes.  This is going to be sent to Atari Explorer, and then 
  
Compuserve. I also need to get a copy to certain others who have 
  
requsted it.

          
          I want to thank most of all Tom Hudson whom I have met 
  
and talked with, I think he has done (is doing) as much for our 
  
machine as any Tramiel and deserves the support of every ST owner 
  
on the planet. 
  
  
          Well I did't intend this to be long winded but this 
  
file will arc nicely. Watch for my future releases; STroller, 
  
LANDSCAPE, Laserskull 2, KICK, TIE (as in fighter), RHINO, THANK YOU, 
  
and a 1meg version of STHENGE.
  


                           Later days,
                           
                            Ambush Bug
                            
                          (S.C. Harmon)
                           
9th and Main BBS 316-221-3276 24/12/3