The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

Euclid and friends
Presented by Tony Cheal, Ace Computing

Monday 15th June 2020, 7:45pm

Online via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


Ace Computing produced a suite of graphics applications for RISC OS from
1989 until the mid 90s. Even if you never used the programs yourself you probably saw many AceFilms, either played using Ace's Projector
application or embedded in other multi-media displays.

Closely following the RISC OS style guide and philosophy, each program performed a distinct task and integrated with the others and the standard applications (Paint and Draw), making extensive use of drag and drop, to provide an easy to use modular animation system.

The applications included:

- Euclid, a 3D design tool
- Mogul, takes Euclid files and creates 3D films
- ArcLight, creates ray traced version of Euclid files or films
- Tween, calculates inbetween frames to morph one Draw file into another
- Splice, imports sprites or existing films for individual frame editing
- Apollonius, a parametric design tool!

Tony Cheal was the programmer of all these applications and has kindly
offered to tell us the history of Ace Computing and how the programs were developed, and to answer your questions.

This will be our first meeting held online via Zoom. Please contact us to receive a link to the meeting on the day.

http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

If you need any further information, please contact us as below.

RISC OS User Group Of London info@rougol.jellybaby.net http://rougol.jellybaby.net/ @rougol 07970 211 629


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