PDP-8/L value

Yeah, the 3D baby model is hidden in part of Dreamkey 3. Dreamkey is a browser Sega created for their Dreamcast games console. It is based on the Japanese browser, Dream Passport. There are two other 3D models hidden in it too, a girl and a ghost (obake). You see, the browser includes 3D routines which allow HTML-like commands to manipulate the 3D models (set and alter X,Y and Z coordinates, alter light-shading, select textures and run animation data stored on the browser disc). From my experience of using the browser and DreamArena (the Dreamcasts online network back around 10 years ago), they never used the 3D element. For anyone interested, I have a few pages where I altered the code and light sourcing. To fully appreciate them you would have to have the Dreamkey 3 disc in your Dreamcast (or emulated Dreamcast) and go to these pages: http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_babymodelduo.html http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_babymodelquad.html http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_babymodeltri.html http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_babymodelv2.html http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_girlmodel.html http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_girlmodelv2.html http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_obake_nomotion.html http://www.geocities.com/aliensrcooluk/public/dk3_obakemodel.html Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk PS. Yes, I know Geocities closed, but I have yet to get myself a domain to transfer it to. --- On Mon, 18/1/10, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: From: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> Subject: Re: PDP-8/L value To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Date: Monday, 18 January, 2010, 14:28 Speaking of dancing animations and USA corporate cluster-stupidity, the original versions of the circa 1998 "dancing baby" animation were made with an add-on called Character Studio for 3D Studio Max from Kinetix, a branch of Autodesk. The 3D baby model was made years before by the company I was working for at the time, Viewpoint.? The animation was licensed by another mo-cap company, Biovision.? Viewpoint gave Kinetix the right to redistribute the baby model in exchange for a credit. The dancing baby was popularized by a recurring appearance as a hallucination of the main character of the television series "Ally McBeal". Autodesk PR promoted the fact it was produced in their software, but in fact many of the times it was on the air in the show, the animation was actually produced with a competing product, Lightwave. To top it all off, when Viewpoint intended to give-away a CD at a trade show containing a screen saver with a "dancing baby" animation, Autodesk slapped it with a cease-and-desist. - John