Once upon a time there was a guy named Eric. Eric had a house, but Eric was not happy. Eric wanted to have a BIGGER house, so he decided to take a project to build a new room to the house.
(Please note, this story has nothing to do with floaters)
After taking careful measures and calculating angles Eric had this “basic engineer idea”: It is probably good idea to input these values to computer so that computer can draw him pictures of the outcome from different angles before he uses huge effort to build the new room… Just in case something is not right… This would have been a “basic engineer idea” if it had happened today but instead it was year 1986 and there was no such a program available. Eric didn’t let this fact to put him down. Instead he decided to write his own program!
It is probably already needless to say that the room was newer added to the house… How ever Eric did well and later his Sculpt 3D became a commercial program. What anyway happened during 1986 is that he bought Amiga 1000, wrote the ray trace engine and did a Juggler-demo that became very popular because it was first ray traced animation made on a home computer. Commodore even paid to Eric so that they could use the animation to advertise Amiga possibilities and Tom Petty used it in his “Jammin’ Me”-music video.
If you have somehow managed to miss this legendary animation demo until now, but you have MSX2 with 256Kb RAM you can download 256-color version of it here:
