Oasis splashes onto Mac paint scene

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Oasis, from Time Arts Inc in Santa Rosa, CA, is a $795 Macintosh color paint program. The software works with the Wacom Super Digitizer cordless stylus and digitizing tablet, a $695 pressure sensitive device. Artists can experience a computer art medium similar to traditional painting by using Oasis and the Super Digitizer together. Oasis is available in a prerelease version that can be made pressure sensitive: the harder the user presses with the stylus, the wider and darker the line gets. The software also features several special video controls to simplify converting images to videotape. Oasis requires a Macintosh II, 4Mbytes of RAM, hard disk, color monitor, video card, 32-bit QuickDraw, and System 6.05 or later. Tear-off menus are available from several of the functions in the toolbox, thus enabling the user to work independently of the Macintosh hierarchical menus. The Wacom Super Digitizer is recommended for use with Oasis.

Computer graphics, Painting (Art), Wacom Inc., Computer art, evaluation, Painting, Graphics Software, Apple Macintosh (680X0-based system), Time Arts Inc., Wacom Super Digitizer, Oasis (Computer graphics software)

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Powerful, a.k.a. difficult

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Alias Sketch 1.0.2, from Alias Research Inc, is an innovative $995 three-dimensional drawing software package for the Macintosh. The program is best suited to users who make their living working on 3-D graphics and takes time and patience to learn. Users who occasionally create a 3-D image are advised to use a package with an easier learning curve. System requirements include an 68030 or 68040-based Macintosh, math coprocessor, 8Mbytes RAM and System 6.05 or higher. Features include an isometric view of a 3-D grid that serves as the foundation for design. A pencil tool is available in addition to the common circle, square, cube and sphere drawing tools. An object can be accurately placed in an environment with the aid of the Sketch feature that allows the user to match the perspective of a background TIFF file.

Product introduction, Three-dimensional graphics, Three dimensional graphics, Alias Research Inc., Alias Sketch 1.0.2 (Draw software)

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