The Kinemorphic Screen Saver - Version 1.0
Copyright (C) 1997
All Rights Reserved
http://www.halcyon.com/render/kine.htm


This file contains the following information:

OVERVIEW ..............: What is The Kinemorphic Screen Saver?
OPENGL.................: What is OPENGL and why do I need it?
CD/SPECTRUM PRO........: What is it and why do you mention it?
BACKGROUND.............: Where did Kinemorphics come from?
RELEASE NOTES..........: What should I know about version 1.0?	
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...: What do I need in order to run it?
INSTALLATION ..........: How do I install it? / How do I get rid of it?
REGISTRATION ..........: Where can I find info on how to register it?
QUESTIONS/SUPPORT .....: Where can I get help with problems?
UPDATES................: When is the next version due?


                               OVERVIEW

  The Kinemorphic Screen Saver will animate an endless variety of awesome 3D 
patterns and images. As the 3D patterns animate on your screen, the objects, 
images, lighting, and colors will move through, around, and on top of each 
other. Kinemorphics has been designed to give you an unprecedented amount of 
control over the effects used. You can use your own graphical images as 
object textures and backgrounds while Kinemorphics generates super-realistic 
lighting effects on top of super-realistic "living" 3D objects. 

  The Kinemorphic Screen Saver has been designed to work in conjunction with 
CD/Spectrum Pro v3.2 in order to provide stunning 3D visual effects that 
synchronize with the sounds from an audio device (like the CD player in your 
computer). With many of the module controls you can associate a sound 
frequency, a range of effect, and a sensitivity. Fluctuations in the 
amplitude of the frequency will oscillate the control values within the range 
of effect. 

  Kinemorphics will work with both Windows 95 and Windows NT (V4.0 and up). 
OpenGL 1.1 (or higher) is also required.  OpenGL 1.1 for Windows NT 4.0 is
included with the Operating System and does not need to be installed separately.
See the next section for more information on OpenGL.


                                 OPENGL

  OpenGL is a 3D graphics library.  The Kinemorphic Screen Saver uses this
library of graphics functions to perform its 3D animations.  If OpenGL v1.1
(or higher) is not installed on your computer, then Kinemorphics will not
run.

  Windows NT v4.0 (and higher) comes with OpenGL v1.1 as part of the operating
system, so you're all set.  Windows 95 (OSR2) also comes with OpenGL v1.1.
Earlier versions of Windows 95 may not have OpenGL v1.1 installed.

  To check whether your machine has OpenGL 1.1 installed, run 
http://www.halcyon.com/render/opengl/glcheck.exe.


  To install OpenGL 1.1 with Kinemorphics, either run

http://www.halcyon.com/render/download/kinegl10.exe

  OR, download and extract,

http://www.halcyon.com/render/download/kinegl10.zip


                            CD/SPECTRUM PRO

  CD/Spectrum Pro is a 32 bit shareware CD-Audio Player with a Graphical 
Spectrum Analyzer for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.  It can be used in 
conjunction with The Kinemorphic Screen Saver in order to allow the patterns 
and the colors generated by the screen saver to be synchronized with sound.  

  CD/Spectrum Pro has almost every feature you can find on any software CD 
player.  It supports programmed mode, intro mode, optional taskbar icon 
operation, auto-play, auto-exit, auto-eject, artist/track/title database, 
etc. It also recognizes CDP files which can save you from typing in all the 
track/title information for your CDs. The spectrum analyzer graphically 
depicts the frequency spectra of the CD music in real time. 

  CD/Spectrum Pro is not a part of The Kinemorphic Screen Saver, it is a 
separate product and must be registered.   However, if you register both 
CD/Spectrum Pro and The Kinemorphic Screen Saver at the same time you can 
do it at a reduced price.  

See the file "OrderFrm.TXT" for complete information on registration.


                              BACKGROUND

  When I began working with OpenGL (a powerful 3D graphics library), I 
quickly realized that the graphical effects that could be achieved were, 
put simply, awe-inspiring.  Mike Irvine (the author of The Psychedelic 
Screen Saver) had been pressuring me to collaborate on a 3D project for 
quite some time so I decided that it would be the perfect opportunity to 
implement some of the effects Id been contemplating.  Our goal for 
Kinemorphics was to put these effects directly under your control. In 
pursuit of this goal, we made the user interface as powerful as possible 
while hiding much (okay, some :-) of the complexity of the underlying 
mathematics.   To get started, we suggest experimentation with the many 
"saved displays" that weve included.

If you are a fan of Mikes Psychedelic Screen Saver Collection (as I am), 
you will notice that the Kinemorphics user interface operates in much the 
same way.  There is a reason for thathe wrote it.   Many of the cool 
graphics effects and design ideas also came from Mike who brought a wealth 
of graphics experience to the Kinemorphics effort.

David Wooden
Co-author of Kinemorphics


                      KINE V1.0 RELEASE NOTES	

* Registering Kinemorphics v1.0 gives you a license to use Kinemorphics 1.0 
  and all subsequent versions of Kinemorphics 1.x.

* You must have a sound card installed (and properly configured) in 
  your system in order for Kinemorphics to sync with sound.

* CD Spectrum Pro v3.2 or later must be running in order for Kinemorphics 
  to sync with sound.


                           SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Suggested:
* The Kinemorphic Screen Saver v1.0 runs quite nicely on a P-90 system. 
  Machines with higher speeds or with 3D accelerator cards will of course 
  perform even faster.

* Microsoft Windows NT 4.x or Windows 95 with OpenGL 1.1.

* Quality/Speed tradeoffs - Note that as you increase your displays color 
  depth and x-y resolution, the image quality will improve at some expense 
  to performance.  Conversely, as you decrease color depth or resolution, 
  the image quality will decrease as the animation speed increases.



                         INSTALLATION / REMOVAL

To install the Kinemorphic Screen Saver, run the setup program (INSTALL.EXE) 
and then follow the directions.  If you later decide that you would like to
remove the software from your system, run the un-install program 
(UNINSTALL.EXE) that's in the directory you installed to. 


                              REGISTRATION

Registration is easy!  The file "ORDERFRM.TXT" contains all the information 
you need on how to register "The Kinemorphic Screen Saver"

Please refer to LICENSE.TXT for information on the license agreement. 



                            QUESTIONS/SUPPORT

If you have access to the World Wide Web, check out the home page for the 
Kinemorphic Screen Saver at:

http://www.halcyon.com/render/kine.htm

If you can't find the information you need here or in the product help, 
send me (David Wooden) email at render@halcyon.com.

If you are experiencing a problem, check to see if the problem exists in 
the latest version of the software which can be found on my WWW site.  
If you are still experiencing the problem, email me with a description of 
the behavior and information on your hardware configuration and operating 
system.  Please be sure to indicate which version of the the screen saver, 
which version of the operating system you are running, and what video 
display driver/adapter you are using.



                                 UPDATES

I will be posting updates to the software on my web site fairly often.


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