Fractal Flight© Copyright HyperCube Engineering 1989

Fractal Flight animations may be viewed from any seekable amiga device,
meaning floppy disks, ram:, hard disks, vd0:, etc.  For best performance
when running from a floppy use the addbuffers command to increase performance
For best performance,  run Fractal Flights from ram:

i.e.

1> Addbuffers df0: 50

Disclaimer:

All the statements in this text are in reference to the state of the software
at the time the demo was created.  

New improvements...

Flight paths are now generated by drawing the path ( using the mouse )
over the view generated by the contour map generator.  This makes flight 
paths very easy and very fast to build.  This reduces the time needed 
to create a flight path by an incredible amount! 

All flight path information is saved as a text file to allow easy editing 
( if you are so inclined ),  or easy processing by external programs.

A smoothing algorithm has been added to the existing "Cruise Missle"
algorithm in the Flight path generating software,  the new alogorithms 
automatically add bank and pitch information to the flight path to create
more realistic flight dynamics.

Phong shading has been added!  This will allow more realistic placement of 
the sun and more realistic shadowing,  as well as smoother contour 
transitions. 

Speed has been improved!  Rendering times have been reduced from 20 minutes
to 5.4 minutes per frame for 24 bitplane 640*400 images!  These times 
reflect rendering on a 40 MHZ 68030. ( like the commercial says "actual
results may very ").
******* LATEST UPDATE 11-29-89 ***** speed has been improved again!
images that had taken 5.4 minutes now take 3.2 minutes!

Some routines have been changed to floating point math from integer math
to reduce the number of "anomolies" induced by integer math errors.     

Digital Elevation Map reading has been improved.  Current maps include all
of Yosemite,  and Mt. St. Helens ( before and after ).  More maps will be
added as the US geological service makes them available.

Copies of this Demo disk and future demos are available through HyperCube.

Send 3$ ( postage and media cost ) to:

	HyperCube Engineering
	Fractal Flight 
	140 Barber St.
	Livermore, Ca.
			94550

or Call (415)-373-9677


This demo is NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN...!!! It has been distributed to a few 
people who are allowed to show it as often as they like and to whom they 
like with the following exception...!

This program will NEVER be available at any store belonging to or
having any affiliation with Creative Computers ( Lawndale, Ca. )

This demo may NEVER be shown at any store belonging to or 
having any affiliation with Creative Computers ( Lawndale, CA).enough said.

intructions: Quickly!

To view a demo from cli type 1> viewer [anim_file_name]
for this disk the anim_file is called "pic"

All images on this disk with the suffix of .pic are iff pictures taken from
various stages of the programs develpment, and are here for your viewing 
pleasure,  use your favorite picture viewer to see the images i.e. 
show,showiz,superview,ushow, etc.