From: Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Vista Pro & Mars CD's from RomTech
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:18:04 -0600
Fred, Thanks for the feedback! I am going to share it with the discuss-lfm forum as there may be some folks interested in hearing your comments. Jan At 09:41 PM 11/24/96 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Jan, > >I have Vista Pro, and although I am not an expert, it is pretty easy to >learn how to render scenes. However, when I say easy, I am talking about >me with some experience with programs. When I put it in front of some >teachers, they began to pale ... than their hearts began to race .. then >they got the computer "runs" and asked to be excused! :) > >The nice thing is that there are already a bunch of images available on >the CD to start with, so even the novice can at least look like they have >done alot!! > >Distant Suns, made by the same company (they used to be Virtual Reality >Laboratories) and First Light are really top notch computer planetarium >programs. We use them extensively in my hs space tech class. They have >some wonderful multimedia clips on the planets. > >Hope this helps. > >Fred