HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: reid@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Reid Judd - Sun NC Development Center)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: DNA molecular structure coordinates
Keywords: DNA atomic rendering
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:10:55 GMT
Reply-To: reid@sunpix.East.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Visualization Products
NNTP-Posting-Host: wild-rice.east.sun.com

In article <1993Jan27.030810.26585@netcom.com>, 
|> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
|>   andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson) writes:
|>
|> >Hi folks,
|> 
|> >I'm processing about 700 images for a new genetics reference book
|> >and am faced with drawing some really complex illustrations which would take
|> >about 30 hours to do by hand... (!)
|> 
|> >Being fairly fluent with PoV, Vivid, 3ds2 and Polyray and learning C
|> >I wonder if anyone knows where I could obtain position and atomic size
|> >info for Z DNA, B DNA and A RNA to render as spheres...
|> 
|> It will take you at least a month to do this on a computer...
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|> Lance Norskog
|> thinman@netcom.com
|> Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.


  Checkout a raytracer called RTrace at asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17].

  There is a module called: pdb2scn which can convert files from the
  Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (PDB format), ALCHEMY (MOL format),
  and CHEMICAL (DAT format) into something more portable
  to raytracers (list of spheres).  There is even an example DNA file.

  The format of RTrace SCN is simple and easy to use.  You should be able
  to trace even large models in much less time than it would take to
  draw them by hand... the example DNA file takes 14 seconds on a 
  Sparcstation 2.  RTrace also works on a large range of machines
  including DOS/Windows/Unix/Vax/Transputers/Macintosh/...

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From: noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL GIFFIN)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: HSV to RGB mapping
Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:29 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <C1KKq1.MD9@cs.dal.ca>, rahman@ug.cs.dal.ca (Omar A. Rahman) writes...
> 
>       I have a question which I hope is not too basic, are there colours
>which can be represented in the true HSV cone which cannot be represented
>in the standard RGB cube? 

	From a hardware point of view, all colour monitors work in RGB. Conversion
is done before it gets to your monitor.  Any colour value triple in HSV format
is translated into RGB.  So in theory any HSV value should have it's
counterpart in RGB.  There are some holes in this.  These numbers are integers
that drive DACS for the colour guns. They have a fixed resolution, which
depends on your system. Typically 6 -> 8 bits / gun. The algorithm which
converts HSV -> RGB is not 1:1  There will be values for which two adjacent
HSV values map into the same RGB value and the converse is also true. There
will be RGB values which won't be mapped by any setting of HSV.  This is
strictly an artifact of DAC resolution. The translation algorithms are 
simple functions. There are no discontinuities in the algorithms that I
have seen.
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: scarnie@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Stuart Carnie=)
Subject: 3D Studio conversion software...
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 00:41:22 GMT

I know this question has probably been asked before, but is there a utility
to convert .3ds files to Polyray or POV-Ray files, or even output them as
ascii, so I can use them txt2dkb, etc.....

Anything would be of help.

I have some .3ds files, but nothing to use them with...

-- 
scarnie@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au

"On a distant planet, a creature strums his guitar..." {:-)
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From: hong@cipr-psych.mgh.harvard.edu (Hong-Jain Jiang)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: segmentaion/edge_detection routine wanted
Keywords: segmentaion, edge_detection
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:43:20 GMT
Reply-To: hong@cipr-psych.mgh.harvard.edu
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Hi there:

I am looking for some ftp sites which have some image 
segmentation, edge/boundary detection programs. I am 
trying to do segmentation on medical images with fuzzy 
boundaries. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hong Jiang
Mass General Hospital
email: hong@cipr-psych.mgh.harvard.edu
tel:   617-724-9525
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: aa556@Freenet.carleton.ca (Ray Moyneur)
Subject: Fli/Flc flics wanted via ftp
Reply-To: aa556@Freenet.carleton.ca (Ray Moyneur)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:26:41 GMT



	As the subject indicates, I'm looking for Flics in both 320-200
and 640-480. as well, as any type of adesk help/hints/tricks 

	For both Anipro and 3d Studio. I am aware of the forum on
compuserve, but i am not a member there yet, and hope not to be. :>

thanks for any help that might come in.


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: allenjm@eng.auburn.edu (John M. Allen)
Subject: Need drivers for NEC-CDR-84 
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:32:02 GMT

Hi,

I just received my CDR-84 but there are no drivers with it.  I suppose I could
call NEC and wait a few weeks for them but I was wondering if they are available
via ftp.  I am using an Ultrastore 14F SCSI adaptor on a DOS machine.  For some
reason the drivers I have downloaded from NEC want to use their host adaptor.

Thanks in advance for any help.

						-John Allen
					allenjm@eng.auburn.edu

Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: galanter@nyu.edu (Philip Galanter)
Subject: Computer Art "works on paper" discussion group via e-mail
Reply-To: galanter@nyu.edu (Philip Galanter)
Organization: New York University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:24:26 GMT

Announcing a new mailing list discussion group for those interested
in hardcopy computer art.  Here is our initial charter:

     "The PAPER-L electronic bulletin board is designed to provide 
a place for artists and technicians to discuss the use of hardcopy 
media for computer art, and other issues related to such art.  This 
would include, for example, discussions of various printers, papers, 
and related photographic processes, archival issues, esthetic issues, 
the announcement of computer art shows and gallery openings, and 
market issues relating to computer art. This bulletin board is an
outgrowth of the "works on paper" birds-of-a-feather meeting at the
Siggraph '92 meeting held in Chicago."

We hope to meet again at Siggraph '93.  We also hope to gain the e-mail  
participation of artists on other networks (e.g. CompuServe) via internet  
gateways, interested printer and imaging companies (e.g. Iris, Kodak,  
Tektronix), and related service companies and galleries (e.g. Nash  
Editions).  So please pass this along!

To join in, send e-mail to:

listserv@acfcluster.nyu.edu (internet) or listserv@nyuacf (bitnet)

and as the body of the message include this line with _your_ name:

subscribe paper-l John Smith

Once your subscription has been processed you will be sent a response.
From that point on you will be able to send mail to all subscribers via  
the address:

paper-l@acfcluster.nyu.edu (internet) or paper-l@nyuacf (bitnet)

If any of this proves to be problematic, send direct e-mail to me at the  
address below.  If direct e-mail also fails please consult with your local  
network administrators.

Thanks for your interest,

 Phil

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Research Associate      251 Mercer             fax:      212-995-4120
Academic Computing      New York, NY 10012 internet: galanter@nyu.edu

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From: tlilley@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Tripp Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation
Subject: Re: Where do I get c.g. movies on Laserdisc ?
Date: 23 Jan 93 06:19:18 GMT
Organization: People who spend too much time in video stores.


  Anyhow, I happened to be in Camelot (I heard it call from far off France)
today, and looked at a few titles. The Dream Machine is now up to volume III,
and it's distributed/produced/whatever by The Voyager Company (I'm pretty
sure they're the same ones who are Criterion in the movie LD market). There
was another called Computer Visions (didn't get distribution info, though)
and yet another called State of the Art in Computer Animation (also a bit
old...)  I've seen Dream Machine I (own it, in fact) and it's neat. State
of the Art is interesting, and more free-form. I neglected to get distribution
info on The Mind's Eye stuff, though they had it... That series is *still*
my favorite.  But Dream Machine scores points for it's 'informative'
psuedo-documentary style.

- t.

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: fsmarc@tristero.lerc.nasa.gov (Marc Cooper)
Subject: Layout packages
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:56:09 GMT



ok.. I've done my own digging and come up empty. Now an appeal to the net.

I'm looking for a PD/shareware/free-in-some-form layout package that 
runs, at minimum on SGI Irises, and ideally, is X-based. 

By layout, I don't mean anything as fancy as Aldus PageMaker. Just something
that can read in several images in a reasonable way, do some dynamic
resizing, cropping, cut 'n paste, rotation, perhpas a few simple editing
features, like color replacement, balancing, and maybe a little 
titling/caption ability. 

Nothing too fancy. Postscript would be lovely, not absolutely required.
A nice GUI would be a plus as well, since the primary users will be 
scientists putting together transparencies for talks, etc.

I've seen NCSA's Layout and Image software, and while it's the right spirit,
it's the wrong platform.  

Anyone got any suggestions?

TIA.


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: guibas@CS.Stanford.EDU (Leonidas J. Guibas)
Subject:  faculty position in computer graphics/computer vision at Stanford University
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:35:48 GMT

==========================================================================

                        STANFORD UNIVERSITY

                   Department of Computer Science

The Computer Science Department of Stanford University is seeking
candidates for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the areas of
computer vision/computer graphics.  Specific areas of interest
include, but are not restricted to, physically-based modeling and
animation, model generation, active vision, sensor fusion, invariants
for vision, illumination models, and geometric foundations for
vision/graphics. The successful candidate will be a computer scientist
who is proficient in developing the underlying algorithmic techniques,
and in building prototype systems to demonstrate the algorithms in
specific applications.  Candidates must have demonstrated outstanding
research and teaching abilities.

Stanford University is an affirmative action/equal-opportunity
employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

Applications, including a curriculum vitae and names of five references,
should be sent to Professor Leonidas J. Guibas, Robotics Laboratory,
Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

==========================================================================
From: dgardner@cup.portal.com (Raster Graphics Inc)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Need phone # of Peerless (3rd pty Postscript SW house)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 10:54:16 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

Help! I'm looking for a phone number for Peerless. They are a designated
3rd party porting house for Adobe - I think they have/had their own
rip too. Please email responses to dgardner@cup.portal.com. 

TIA

Deane Gardner
Raster Graphics Inc
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: rieffel@cs.swarthmore.edu (Marc Rieffel)
Subject: Re: DXF files and Merging 3DFACE's
Reply-To: rieffel@cs.swarthmore.edu (Marc Rieffel)
Organization: Computer Science, Swarthmore College, PA, USA
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:13:25 GMT

I'm writing a graphics application that imports graphics objects from DXF
files.  The problem is, any simple object I create in my CAD program
(DesignCAD/Mac) ends up as thousands of 3DFace's.  Even a simple cube.
Obviously, I don't want to deal with thousands of faces when the object only
_really_ consists of a few.  Therefore, I have to find some way of merging
these faces.  I haven't been able to come up with a good algorithm for doing
this.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
--Marc
-- 

--Marc

Marc Rieffel '94, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 19081-1397;
Xref: sparky comp.graphics:14189 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:17092
From: marko@ringding.cs.umd.edu (Marko Teittinen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: VESA driver for 8514/A needed
Keywords: VESA driver 8514
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:05:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.graphics
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Does anybody know if there is a VESA driver for IBM 8514 adapter. I
need to write a graphics program that should run on that hardware,
but the graphics library doesn't support 8514, but it does support
VESA. The driver should be able to use 8514's 256 color modes (I hope
to use the 1024*768*256 mode, but will settle for less if that isn't
available). 

So, has anyone seen VESA driver for 8514?


Thanks in advance,

Marko
--
            Marko Teittinen, PhD student, Computer Science
                 University of Maryland, College Park
                           marko@cs.umd.edu
From: aargyle@sobeco.com (a.argyle)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: D.E.M files
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:55:58 GMT
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young

In <1993Jan27.000257.12346@usl.edu> rks9954@usl.edu (Srinivasa Rao K) writes:



>   Hi, 

>       Does any one who has software ( or info about  any ftp site )

>	   
>	   TO READ  D.E.M. FILES  ( just to get x,y,z out of file)


>       could Please  be kindful to let me know ...



>     
>       Thanks alot .....


I would be very interested as well.

       -AArgyle-
>    Rao.
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: joes@lpi.liant.com (Joe Stewart)
Subject: Re: Coastal Data Files
Reply-To: joes@lpi.liant.com
Organization: Template Graphics Software
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:55:22 GMT

In article <1jhd6dINNh8f@life.ai.mit.edu>, dhoelzer@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Hoelzer) writes:
|> 
|>   Now I know that somewhere on the net are some geographic data files..  Can
|> anyone point me at them???
|> 
|> dhoelzer@cscns.com

Take a look at:
  pub/map@spectrum.xerox.com
  pub/comp.archives/sci.geo.geology@cs.dal.ca
Other sources include:
  National Technical Information Service
  National Geophysical Data Center
  Census Bureau
  US Geological Survey
  USGS Earth Sciences Institute
and
  Geographic Data Technology

Joe

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: rsc@altair.csustan.edu (Steve Cunningham)
Subject: Re: Computer Graphics Career handbook
Summary: Ordering information
Keywords: Computer Graphics Career handbook
Organization: CSU Stanislaus
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:15:57 GMT

leus@aix.rpi.edu (Sheua-Wan Leu) asks:

> Does anyone know the information about a book
> "Computer Graphics Career handbook" which was published by SIGGRAPH.
> ISBN number ? Where I can get it ? price ? Can I mail order from SIGGRAPH ?
> Any information is appreciated.

Let's see now:  this is a special issue of SIGGRAPH's Computer Graphics,
dated February 1991; the ACM order number is 429910, and the ACM ISBN is
0-89791-379-5.  The member price is $16 and the non-member price is $20.
All this information is from the inside cover of the publication.  For
ordering this (or any other) ACM publication, write, call, fax, or e-mail
to:

		Publications Marketing Manager
		ACM Press
		1515 Broadway
		New York, NY  10036
		1-800-342-6626
		1-410-528-8596 fax single-copy orders
		+1 410-528-4261 customer service, or orders outside 
			the USA or in MD or AK (8:15 - 4:15 M-F US 
			Eastern Time.)
		e-mail inquiries: ACMPUBS@ACMVM.BITNET

Happy reading, and good luck on your graphics career.

-- Steve Cunningham
   SIGGRAPH director for publications
From: preiser@cancer.unm.edu (Doug Preiser)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF view for DEC REGIS???
Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:48:20 GMT
Organization: UNM Cancer Center
Reply-To: preiser@cancer.unm.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cancer.unm.edu

In article <diegel.727791706@mcshh.hanse.de>, diegel@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Jan Diegelmann) writes:
>
>Hi!
>
>Is there any GIF viewer for DEC graphic terminals ( vt125, vt240, vt330 )
>with the DEC REGIS graphic instruction set?
>
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>e-mail: diegel@mcshh.hanse.de

I use giftoppm and ppmtosixel, from pbmplus but it doesn't always work, and the
colors come out wrong cause ppmtosixel rescales to maxval=100.

   Internet: preiser@cancer.unm.edu
   Bitnet:   preiser@unmb
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson)
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Needing 3D Studio 2.0 Objects
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.14 $
Organization: Haveland-Robinson Associates
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:45:38 +0000


In article <1k0u63INN824@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> chribeag@w254zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Christian Klass) writes:

>Hello there,
>I`m desperatly looking for 3D objects, which I can use for
>3D Studio (from Autodesk). Is there a site where I can get
>those objects or programs which can convert between different
>object-formats?
>
>Please help me...
>
>Greetings,
>           Chris
>
>Btw. are there any Star Wars 3d objects???

avalon.chinalake.navy.mil springs to mind, there is some stuff there
but needs contributions! (HINT)

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From: erik@microware.com (Erik Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Digital Image Warping (c-code)
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:43:38 GMT
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa

I finally picked up a copy of 'Digital Image Warping' by George Wolberg.
The book looks great.  However, I have tried using the c-code listed in
the book without much luck.  I found an errata sheet for the book on
wuarchive.wustl.edu in /graphics/graphics/books.

Has anyone been able to use the 2-D mesh warping code?

Good day,

Erik Johnson    erik@microware.com
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: dbuck@alfred.carleton.ca (Dave Buck)
Subject: Re: POV;
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:34:49 GMT

In article <84C4770Dfrank@whare.cavebbs.welly.gen.nz> frank@whare.cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst) writes:
>rabussea@william.greco-prog.fr (Denis Rabusseau) wrote the following: 
>> 
>> Is there any version of PoVRay under OS/2 v2.0 and + ?
>> Can someone give ftp sites where can I find it ?
>
>I compiled POVRAY for OS/2 2.0, and uploaded it to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

In the POVLEGAL.DOC file included with POV-Ray, it says:

   "This package may not be compiled and distributed, modified or not,
    without the written permission of the POV-Team.  The user is
    granted the privilege to compile the source for their own personal
    use.  Executables created by the user from source included in the
    source archive may not, under any circumstances, be distributed
    without the written permission of the POV-Team."

We've had quite a few problems with people re-compiling the POV-Ray
source without fully testing it and distributing buggy versions of it.
The result is that we get bombarded by messages from users of these
versions complaining that it doesn't work.

Please remove any unauthorized versions of POV-Ray from any FTP sites.


David Buck
dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca

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From: sintese@ax.apc.org
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: software to convert dib format
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:59:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:ax:1172700001:000:170
Nf-From: ax.UUCP!sintese    Jan 25 13:59:00 1993



   Dear All,

   Does anyone know about a public domain or comercial software to
   convert .dib images into .bmp?

   Thanks,
   Marcelo
   sintese@ax.apc.org
From: plloyd@ec.uwa.oz.au (Paul James Lloyd - accfin_staff)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: reading .XBM on a PC
Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:59:06 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: accfin.ecel.uwa.edu.au
Summary: The title says it all really, What tools are available to read XBM file
Keywords: Conversion, Utilities, Viewers

Well the title of this one says it all really.  What too0ls are available to
:

a)  View XBM files on a PC either under windows or Dos

b)  Convert XBM's to a PC viewable format running either on the PC or
    under unix through a VT100 emulation.


    All help greatfully received,


		  Thanks,  Paul Lloyd. 
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Department of Accounting & Finance
University of Western Australia
plloyd@ecel.uwa.edu.au