pls tell me about 'imagine' 3d software

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@rednova

I'm a dinosaur who loved Turbo Silver and only used Imagine a few times in the media labs at university.  At the time, Imagine seemed to generate amazing output, and without the stupid resolution limits of TS, but I never really grokked the Imagine interface.  It seemed very complex.  But I never encountered the manual and maybe that would have helped.

I did get Imagine on some magazine coverdisks but IIRC they didn't work on NTSC systems.  Or maybe I just didn't try hard enough.

I'd still be using Turbo Silver (as horribly primitive as it is) if it worked on my current system and could generate output at higher resolutions than old OCS modes.

There were a lot of Imagine tutorial articles in Amazing Computing, IIRC, and the images printed there always amazed me.

I now have Aladdin 4D but haven't taken the time to learn how to use it.  I'd prefer a ray tracer.  I'll try Blender when I manage to download it.

Is Imagine for Amiga still for sale somewhere?

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No way were some of them done on the amiga, far too hires and unless imagine 4 up to current standards or a lot of photoshop donw aftwards ?

They look perfectly achievable to me.  Imagine is not limited to screen resolution.  The user specifies width, height, and aspect ratio.  Also, the quality of Imagine's output is very good.  There's a good chance that no retouching was necessary.