[sdiy] Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

[john tuffen]

Quoting Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com>:

> At 16:25 19/07/2005, jbv wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Imagine creating computer synthesized music that way, or worse yet,
> > > having to rely upon nightly batch processing with the punched cards.
> >
> >I had a similar experience in the early 80's, when using
> >Music V on a PDP11... used to start sound synthesis in
> >the evening, and was able to hear the result the next morning...
>
> You still get this with computer animation. One project I worked on
> recently took three weeks of 24/7 rendering to produce a two minute video
> sequence.

Yes, this is true, although it is nice to think that the computer is actually
*doing* something - I did a short animation that took about 16 hours of
computing... feels good when it's finished!

john..

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