Re: Newton, James Cook and the Archi.

In message <4f2d91761cjohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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          John Cartmell <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <07e98e2d4f.Andrew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>    <newpostcentral@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Personally I think BASIC is a brilliant way of an amateur writing a 
> > freeware game and the only wall anybody will come up against is the 
> > graphics. If there could be an investigation into how this could be 
> > addressed *that* would make for an excellent Qercus article!
> 
> In many cases a good start would be with vector graphics - and we're
starting
> a new series based around ArtWorks. Richard Ashbery's article on simple
> animation (Qercus 281) could be used as basic ideas - and of course it
depends
> upon what you mean by games. Levels for platform games could very well
be
> designed in ArtWorks. Anyone want to produce a couple of articles as
part of
> that series?

Don't forget TracerPro in this case. *I* can only work fine with
ArtWorks including it... it allows you to make true drawings on paper,
to scan them and then convert them to vector graphics. And then
ArtWorks, right on!

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