HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: joes@tgs.com (Joe Stewart)
Subject: Re: Need graphics library for hardcopy support
Reply-To: joes@tgs.com
Organization: Template Graphics Software
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:51:21 GMT

In article <mmcardle.930105190505@eng.auburn.edu>, mmcardle@eng.auburn.edu (Mary McArdle) writes:
|> I am searching for a graphics package or library that 
|> will enable me to create output for both HP plotters and 
|> postscript printers.
Beth:

You may want to take a look at FIGARO+, our implementation of the ANSI/ISO
PHIGS standard, a powerful 2D and 3D graphics library.  FIGARO+ offers 
portability from PC's to supercomputers as well as enhanced support of X
and PEX, Sun's XGL, SGI's GL and GLX, and HP's Starbase.  

An option to FIGARO+ is the Peripheral Support Option (PSO), which provides
seamless hardcopy:  PostScript, CGM, HPGL, QMS's QUIC, Tektronix, etc.

If you want the usual marketing literature, just send a note to info@tgs.com.
If you have technical questions, send them to me at joes@tgs.com.

Regards,

Joe
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 Joseph Stewart
 Senior Applications Engineer (FIGARO+, FIGt, FIGraph)
 Template Graphics Software (TGS)
 959 Concord Street 
 Framingham MA 01701-4613 (USA)
 508-872-8700 x340
 joes@tgs.com -- tgs!joes
---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Renee.Teunissen@freudsys.iaf.nl (Renee Teunissen)
Sender: Usenet@freudsys.iaf.nl
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: polyray
Date: 03 Jan 93  15:46:45 EST


Hi M.J.M.Schmitt., on 14 Dec 92 (about 16:33:23) yo wrote to All :

 M> Hi there,
 M> I'm currently working with the POV and VIVID raytracers but
 M> learned form an article in a Dutch computer magazine that POLYRAY
 M> is more difficult to use but substantially faster. It is also
 M> freeware. Could someone tell me where to get? It's not on
 M> Wuarchive that much I know.

allmost every decent bullitin board in the netherlands has it. try Marvels BBS in Eindhoven. Try to email it's sysop for the bbs phone nr.. [sysop: martin@marvels.iaf.nl]

Regards,
 _
|_)
|\_enee.    [Renee@freudsys.iaf.nl]


 * Origin: freudsys.iaf.nl, a prive uucp gate at (27:4331/107.19)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: adam@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Adam)
Subject: BOB Raytracer
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:44:56 GMT

On a recent trip to Waldenbooks I picked up _Photorealism_and_Raytracing
in_C_ by Christopher D. Watkins and Stephen B. Coy.  It was fascinating
and came with a small but impressive raytracer called BOB.  I was curious
if anyone else has worked with this because try as I might, I can't seem
to get it to work on my computer.  I've run it with no problems on some 
friends' computers, so I'm pretty sure it's my Trident 8900 causing the
problems... please mail any ideas or suggestions, I don't get on this
group much.

And I highly recommend the book ($44.95) even without the software...

Adam Pletcher
adam@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 3D format conversions
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:29:14 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu


I'm looking for descriptions of 3D formats, and any public software
for conversion between them.  In particular, I'd like to convert
IGES to RIB.  Any information at all, background, other format acronyms
and meanings, etc. is welcome.  Please email and I'll summarize back
to the group if there is interest.  Thanks.

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: lkay@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (leonard kay)
Subject: More HP7475 plotter help needed 
Organization: Northeastern University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:32:36 GMT


First off, I'd like to thank all 6 netters who provided
help to my recent question regarding HP-GL language 
documentation. I called the HP Customer Order number
and ordered an 'Interfacing and Programming Manual',
which I am eagerly awaiting (it was $27!!! Someone had
said $10. Oh well....) Thanks again!

Now, I have a hardware-related question about the 7475:
To standardize things, I normally create my plot output
to a file, which I then plot using the following
DOS command:

copy [filename] com2:/b

The problem is in about 50% of cases, the plotter hangs
at some point and I get a 'write error' on com2: .
Sometimes I can hit (R)etry and it goes merrily along,
sometimes not. What gives here? What can I do? I get
the feeling that the plotter or computer (a 386 clone)
is misinterpreting something as a handshake? Yes? No?
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Len

PS This only happens with the copy command. Plotting
from within a graphics package works without a hitch.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Dr. Leonard Kay, KB2R                  | Never ascribe to malice that 
 Electrical and Computer Engineering    | which can be adequately
 Northeastern University, Boston        | explained by stupidity.
 NU ARC: W1KBN 145.31(-)                |
 Packet: KB2R@K1EA                      | #include <disclaimer.h> 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: smackinl02@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: WANTED: Mode X Line Draw + Triangle Fill
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:55:58 GMT

Please note - this is a query specific to VGA graphics on an IBM PC compatible.

Anyone care to help with this one? Specifically I want a nice quick line draw
routine that has been optimised for Mode X (see Michael Abrash's July '91
Graphics column in Dr Dobbs Journal).

As I'm programming in Turbo Pascal I'd like either (a) pseudo-code, (b) actual
pascal code, or preferrably (c) assembly code that I can stick in.

Specifications:
The code needs to have the following header;

procedure DrawLine (StartX, StartY, EndX, EndY : Word; Colour : Byte; PageBase
: Word);

where the PageBase is the offset from a000 we are drawing into, and the rest
should be self explanatory.

The code doesn't need any error checking - it will only be fed valid
co-ordinates in the range [x] 0-320, [y] 0 - 240, [colour] 0 - 255, and
  [PageBase] 0-FFFFh.
--

The other thing that I need is a triangle filling routine - it will be fed the
three vertices and will be expected to order and fill the resultant triangle.
Again, this will be in mode X and will need to take parameters of the three
verticies and the pagebase and the colour.

--

E-Mail would be appreciated.

Thankyou for your time and brainpower,
Simon
--
Masochism - "Hit me, Hit me!"
Sadism - "No."
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: anselmo@thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo)
Subject: contour plotting of non-uniform data (or randomly scattered data)
Organization: Columbia University Department of Mechanical Engineering
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:15:51 GMT
X-Posted-From: thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


I'm aware of stuff available on the 'net that will let me do contour
plots for uniform data sets (i.e. a fixed dx and dy for each coordinate
point).  I was wondering if there were any programs around a that would
convert  data on a non-uniform grid (relatively easy) or on a random
grid (harder) to a uniform grid.  

Thanks.

-A.

reply by e-mail if you can; my news feed is slow and intermittent...

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Andrew Anselmo / Department of Mechanical Engineering / SUNY Stony Brook   
    		     anselmo@thermsa.eng.sunysb.edu 

Xref: sparky comp.graphics:13484 alt.graphics.pixutils:2844
From: klui@corp.hp.com (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Your one stop GRAPHICS shop!
Date: 7 Jan 1993 01:14:32 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
NNTP-Posting-Host: klui.corp.hp.com

In article <1993Jan6.211549.3207@a.cs.okstate.edu> jmccorm@a.cs.okstate.edu (MCCORMICK JOSHUA C) writes:
>                                                               The main
>problems (or one of them) is that they require too much information to
>go over an ISA bus with any speed.

Upgrade to a 486 with local-bus video.

>                                   The thought of running a GUI on a PC
>in a 24 bit color mode scares me, unless there's a coprocessor hooked onto
>the card. 
>
I have a Mac at home, and I find that running 32-bit video is
tolerable.  Even telecom programs run without losing data at V.32
(my modem's old and don't have V.32bis).  I can always switch to
8-bit on the fly.

>Until software and hardware catches up, it's going to be a while before
>24 bit color takes off.
>
They're just beginning to become popular with all the coverage
multimedia is getting.  


Ken

-- 
Kenneth K.F. Lui, klui@corp.hp.com                  3000 Hanover Street MS20BJ
Corporate Administrative Information Systems        Palo Alto, CA  94304   USA
Core Application Technologies                1(415)857-3230 Fax 1(415)852-8026
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: *.FLC viewer for 386/486
From: killion@eis.calstate.edu (Dave Killion;Pac Bell)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:32:03 GMT
Distribution: USA
Organization: Cyberscape Video Productions

Hi... quick question - I got DTA, and think it's the best thing since
sliced and buttered bread, but I have one hangup - I don't have a *.FLC
viewer.  AAPLAY does *.FLI (320x200x256) but I need a FLC (640x480x256)
viewer.  Avalon doesn't have it.  Where can I get a FLC viewer?

Thanks,

Dave
killion@eis.calstate.edu

"Any fool with fast hands can take a tiger by the balls, but it takes are
hero to keep on squeezing"
 - Stephen King's The Dark Half quoting George Stark
From: sl0pr@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Need 3D Objects to shade - eg. faces etc.
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:48:26 MDT
Organization: Utah State University


Hi,
We have a CS course in Graphics. Requirements. We need to shade objects.
Ray trace later. I need objects - 3D - real urgent. 
Preferences - 
Starwars characters, spaceships, human figures, faces, 
robots,etc. Also, please pass on information about how
to read in these points. ie. in what format is the 
data file. I have some files with points. The 
extension of these files is .nff 
I don't know how to read 'em. Pl. help. Must start 
on the work in a week. 
Also, GIFF file format. How may I read the file?
I am at:
sl0pr@cc.usu.edu and
sl0pr@cache.declab.usu.edu

I wil be grateful for some help.

Rahul Thakkar
Utah State Univ. 
CS Dept.
Logan UT 84322

801 755 9645
From: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: SUIT 2.3, An easy-to-learn GUI toolkit
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:17:43 GMT
Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL

suit@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (The Simple User Interface Toolkit) writes:


>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>			  Who Can Get SUIT?
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>SUIT, including all its source code, is available without charge to
>Universities and other non-profit institutions.  For-profit
>organizations can purchase SUIT site licenses for a hefty fee. We are
>currenlty thinking about single-CPU liscenses as well. If you are

While SUIT sounds like it might be worth checking out, the fee
structure makes it such that it isn't even worth evaluating to see how
good it is for a lot of us.  Maybe an IBM or a MicroSoft can afford a
"hefty fee" for a 1000 workstation site license, but most small-business
software companies who want to use it at 1 or 2 stations cannot, and
in the large businesses where one or two people would like to use it,
they aren't going to be able to get their management to pay that hefty
fee just so a few people can use it.  I would urge you to think a lot
harder about single-CPU licenses if you want to see your software get
widespread use.
-- 
Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
100 Trade Centre Drive, Suite 301, Champaign, IL  61820     (217) 352-1165
uunet!gistdev!flint or flint@gistdev.gist.com
From: e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink)
Subject: Is the Weiler algorithm patented ?
Originator: sink@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: e-sink@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:05:36 GMT

I *thought* I remembered seeing something about a patent on the Weiler
algorithm (the one for clipping an arbitrary polygon against another).

Does anyone know if this is the case ?

-- 
Eric W. Sink, Spyglass        | "In all the earth, only humans have the ability
1800 Woodfield Drive          |    to be content in bad situations...
Savoy, IL  61826              |    and vice-versa."
---- e-sink@uiuc.edu ---------|---------- 217-355-6000 -----------------------
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: root@cpp.uucp (Rich Bauer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.research,comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Lasers
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:17:18 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Critical Path Project
X-Submissions-To: graphics@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: graphics-request@scri1.scri.fsu.edu

Looking for current material about laser scanning technologies,
specifically like what is used in planaterium laser light display
shows.

I KNOW that this is not the correct group for this, but as far as I 
can tell, this group is the closest match to the subject.

-- 
Rich Bauer	   	   |	UUCP...!dsinc!jabber!cpp!rich
Critical Path Project Inc  |	or.....rich@cpp.UUCP
Philadelphia PA            |    Public Access, News & Mail 

[Moderator's Note: You might also try sci.electronics. I'm sure laser scanning
technologies would fit somewhere between discussions of surface-to-orbit
magnetic mass accelerators and "What's wrong with my VCR" questions :-) -- JRM]
--
Moderated by SCRI Vis <>           Submissions to: graphics@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
Guy, John R. Murray   <> Administrivia to: graphics-request@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
Xref: sparky comp.graphics:13503 comp.graphics.visualization:1975 comp.org.acm:1039
From: rsc@altair.csustan.edu (Steve Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.visualization,comp.org.acm
Subject: Last chance at reduced prices
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:38:55 GMT
Organization: CSU Stanislaus


             SIGGRAPH '92 Visual Proceedings available

                       Time is running out!

SIGGRAPH has recently received the SIGGRAPH '92 Visual Proceedings from 
the conference, and we got more than we expected -- we're overstocked.  
The Visual Proceedings is a record of the SIGGRAPH '92 Art Show and 
Electronic Theater and is a wonderful publication with well over 100 
color plates from the art show and animations in its 112 pages.  Our 
normal member price is $25.00, but through January 15, 1993, we are 
pricing it at $20.00 for all orders to trim our stocks and to make it 
available to everyone in the graphics community.  For this same time, we 
are also reducing the price on the 1989 through 1991 SIGGRAPH art show 
catalogs from $20 to $15, and since we expect people to want to order 
several years' catalogs at once, we are making the entire four-year set 
available as a bundle for $60.

The order numbers for these publications are:
	SIGGRAPH '92 Visual Proceedings: 428922
	SIGGRAPH '91 Computers in Art and Design: 428912
	SIGGRAPH '90 Digital Image -- Digital Cinema: 429904
	SIGGRAPH '89 Computer Art in Context: 428891

SIGGRAPH publications may be ordered from
	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

-- Steve Cunningham
   SIGGRAPH director for publications
From: af774@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Chad Cipiti)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Hi Color FLIs
Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:56:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Where can I find the Hi Color FLI maker -- either FTP or here on
 Usenet posted somewhere.  

Thanks alot!

Chad


-- 
    ....                  SHARK ENCOUNTER
~ ~  :::::. ~~~  ~   ~      new in 1993             Chad Cipiti
 ~~ ::::::::. ~   ~~     Sea World of Ohio   af774@cleveland.freenet.edu
~~.:::::::::::.~ ~~~ ~    "Make Contact."
From: mpe@shamash.cdc.com ()
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Need help in dividing complex polygon into smaller polygon
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:05:29 GMT


I have a series of vertex points for a complex non-self intersecting 
polygon structure and would like to divide it along a cut-line.  If
you have any algorithms which might help please forward to 
mpe@shamash.cdc.com. 
 
Thank you for any help you might be able to offer.
 
Example structure:
 
               X*********************X          X******************X
               *                     *          *                  *
               *                     *          *    X*******X     *
               *                     *          *    *       *     *
cutline -----------------------------------------------------------------
               *                     *          *    *       *     *
               *                     X**********X    *       X*****X
               *                                     *
               X*************************************X
 
This would result in four smaller polygon structures...
From: jearls@peg.pegasus.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Date: 08 Jan 93 17:51 EST
Subject: SCREENPRINTING
Nf-ID: #N:peg:937000005:000:603
Nf-From: peg.UUCP!jearls    Jan  8 17:51:00 1993


I am looking at how screenprinting is currently taught; how 
technological change is introduced to the screenprinting curriculum; 
new ways of learning screenprinting, (computer based or CD 
learning etc); plans for screen printing distance education.
If you have a personal interest or if you have any contacts or 
references that might be useful please email me and I will be 
happy to provide more details of what I am attempting to do
thanks
ps I would also be grateful if this could be copied to any 
appropriate list

john earls PhD

jearls@peg.apc.org   (internet)

or jearls@peg.pegasus.oz au 


Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Unix tool for generating "contact sheet" of GIF images
Organization: Ministry of Information, William's Marsh
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:55:34 GMT

In article <C0CA0t.G4M@rice.edu> riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
> From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
> Subject: Wanted: Unix tool for generating "contact sheet" of GIF images
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:02:52 GMT
>
> I am looking for the right tool with which to reduce a number of GIF
> images to thumbnail size and combine them together with their titles to
> form a "contact sheet".
>
> It needs to run under Unix and it would be preferable if it could run
> in non-interactive mode (I'd like to be able to run it automatically
> from a shell script).
>
> The purpose is to generate a visual table of contents for a Gopher
> directory of images.  Has anyone done this yet?

I've gotten four answers with three solutions in just the few minutes
since I posted this:

| From: higgins@infonode.ingr.com (T. J. Higgins)
|
| You need the PBMplus package, specifically the pnmindex program.  You
| can get PBMplus from your favorite FTP site, or use archie.

| From: Tom.Lane@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu
|
| What you want is "icontact", a Perl script posted recently in
| comp.sources.misc.  You'll also need PBMPLUS.  icontact will chop,
| slice, dice, ... anyway, it has every frammish you could ever want.

| From: cristy@eplrx7.es.dupont.com (Cristy)
|
| Try 'montage' from contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu:
|
|   Montage creates a composite image by combining several
|   separate images.  The images are tiled on the composite
|   image with the name of the image optionally appearing just
|   below the individual tile.

I'm still interested in other solutions, especially any which have been
tailored to automagically generate a contact sheet from a Gopher
directory.  Thanks!

-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
-- Unix Systems Programmer, Office of Networking and Computing Systems
-- Rice University, POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 / Mudd 208 / 713-285-5327
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
From: rob@rjck.UUCP (Robert J.C. Kyanko)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: book on 8514/a programming
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 01:15:37 GMT
Organization: RJK Enterprises

rimkus@netcom.com writes in article <1993Jan4.001135.22998@netcom.com>:
> 
> I'm looking for a thorough book on programming for an 8514/a graphics
> adapter interface. Suggestions?
> 

There has only been one book published to my knowledge:

           Graphics Programming for the 8514/A
           By Jake Richter & Bud Smith              (disk included)
           from M&T Books
           ISBN 1-55851-079-6 (book/disk)
                1-55851-074-5 (book)

It covers the registers & the API.  It's about 350+ pages.
--
I am not responsible for anything I do or say -- I'm just an opinion.
             Robert J.C. Kyanko (rob@rjck.UUCP)
From: af774@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Chad Cipiti)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: PV3D
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:20:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I finally found the wireframe modeler for POV-Ray called PV3D on
 ftp ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de

However.....since it's over seas, and for some other reason, it
 is taking literally FOREVER to get it here.  Archie doesn't
 show that it's at any other site....anyone konw of one?  Or
 could someone who has faster access overseas put it in a better
 locational here in the state?  Thanks a whole lot!

Chad


-- 
    ....                  SHARK ENCOUNTER
~ ~  :::::. ~~~  ~   ~      new in 1993             Chad Cipiti
 ~~ ::::::::. ~   ~~     Sea World of Ohio   af774@cleveland.freenet.edu
~~.:::::::::::.~ ~~~ ~    "Make Contact."
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: joem@alw.nih.gov (Joe Maisog)
Subject: please help: bitpads and Sun SPARCstation
Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:57:21 GMT

Keywords: bitpad driver Sun SPARC


Our lab is using a Sun SPARCstation for much of our image-processing
and we would like to use a bitpad (aka "digitizing pad") and stylus
("pen") instead of a mouse to draw our regions of interest.

There are several bitpads which can attach to the Sun SPARCstation,
including the Microgrid III and the SummaSketch II Plus by
Summagraphics, but we have not been able to find *any* software to
drive any bitpad for a SPARCstation.  Does anyone out there know of
any bitpad drivers for SPARCstations?

Please send any information to joem@alw.nih.gov or diane@alw.nih.gov.
Or call (301) 402-1737, and ask for Joe or Diane.  We would very much
appreciate any help.


-- 

	-------------------------------------------------------
	Jose' Ma. Maisog, M.D.		phone: (301) 402-1737
	Building 10, Room 6C414		uucp: uunet!nih-csl!joem
	National Institutes of Health	Internet: joem@alw.nih.gov
	Bethesda, MD 20892
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: cholasam@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (cholasam)
Subject: Looking for a GL viewer for Macintosh
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:33:55 GMT