Merging computer graphics and video - Whole Earth Software Catalog - Version 1.3 - evaluation

DONNA COHEN: Now that you can get inexpensive interactive videodisc interfaces for computers, people need graphics software that will take a computer-generated image and superimpose it onto video. Tecmar's Graphics Master board interfaces with the videodisc and computer, and has PC PAINTBRUSH by IMSI (WER #45, . 87) in ROM. PC PAINTBRUSH, although easy to use, is not fancy enough for very professional work -- in one project the artist had to go in and touch up every letter produced by the computer, but it did get the job done.

Paradise Graphics makes PRISM 2000, a complete (if somewhat expensive) system for video and graphics software--an ITT XT computer, two monitors (one monochrome and one color), drawing tablet, plotter, video camera, video interface, and Kodak Instagraphic slide maker, with two software programs -- LUMENA (WESC, p. 132) and ARTWORK, a 3-d modeling program that interfaces with LUMENA.

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