HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ian@ug.cs.dal.ca (Ian Littlewood)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Re: Head Morph ANIM
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:21:29 GMT
Distribution: dal
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

In <92100.005311JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu> <JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>The file has been re-uploaded and checked, everything is ok this time.  Sorry
>for any inconveniences caused earlier.

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>  //  /"| |\/| | /"" |"\  "Back off man or I'll blow your squash into the
>\X/  /""| |  | | \_T |""\  next life!  Hasta la vista Homer."
>Jason Koszarsky
>JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu        THE AMIGA GROUP (TAG)
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What is the name of the file and where has it been uploaded?
From: jhawes@everest.srd.bt.co.uk (Jason Hawes)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: AnarchSIB (Re: HardWired probs..)
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:12:24 GMT
Reply-To: jhawes@everest.srd.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom

From article , by aj733@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Hnat):
> 
> Also has anyone gotten Anarchy-SIB to work?
> 
> [th]
> 
> 
> -- 

Yes.

It needs 0.5MB fast ram located at c00000 - none of this 'real fast'
rubbish, it has to be at c0.

I've run it under KS1.2 but not KS2.04 (I haven't tried)
From: stacysm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Stacy)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Head Morph ANIM
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:17:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.44352
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Originator: stacysm@sage.cc.purdue.edu

Head_morph.anim IS BAD!  The idiot that posted this huge file forgot
to check it for a bad compression.  Do not waste your time trying
to get this, like I just did. 

Heath Doerr
Email : stacysm@sage.cc.purdue.edu
From: d1gunnar@dtek.chalmers.se (Gunnar Andersson)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Re: What is algorithm for "pixel vectors"?
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:30:05 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

larshaug@ifi.uio.no (Lars Haugseth) writes:


>In article <91879@muvms3.bitnet>, rcbi110@muvms3.bitnet writes:
>> 
>> What is, in pretty general pseudocode, the algorithm of the "pixel vectors"
>> in Hardwired??  I love that effect!

>I belive they are just transforming from one object to
>another, and during the transformation they change
>the masking of the lines. Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't
>been fooling around in their code.

They are definately doing more than that.  After all it looks like it's 
disolved into pixels and then the pixels move to another location.  Really 
I think it's just animating of pictures.  If you look at it, the objects look
very "thick" so they would have to draw a whole bunch of lines to make it.
Also the fact that the objects stop spinning during the transformation seems
to indicate that they're actually handling the objects as pictures rather than 
vectors.  If I remember correctly, they only rotate in one direction and it 
repeats itself quite often.  The whole animation could therefore be 
pre-calculated, either on the disk but more likely, while displaying one object
they're calculating the next one. 

If you look at for example the End-part, they use the same routine to 
transform between different texts.  They seem to have some really nice 
interpolation techinque (is that the right word?) to make a smooth movement
of the pixels.  Since the text is displayed without animation for quite a 
while, they can again pre-calculate the next animation while displaying 
the previous text.  This way there's plenty of time for a complicated 
algorithm.

Remember, I'm just guessing, drawing my own conclusions from what I can see 
on the screen and from what I know can and can't be done.

Does anyone have other ideas??




             Gunnar Andersson   --  d1gunnar@dtek.chalmers.se            
	        Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
From: e5pj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Re: Odyssey Demo
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:21:03 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

In article <egodula.2275@amiganet.chi.il.us>,
egodula@amiganet.chi.il.us (Edmund Godula) writes: 
> I just got this hard disk installation program for the Odyssey megademo from Alacatraz written by the authors of the demo, but when I try to run the demo off of the hard drive, I get an error message that pops up at the top of the screen saying, "Execbase in Chip Ram!", and it stops loading.  I used Sysinfo to check this out, and Exec's node was in Chip Ram.  Has anyone ever come across this particular error before, and is there a possible solution that would allow me to run this demo on the hard drive? 


 
T> 
> 
> hanks for any help!
> 
> Edmund Godula
> egodula@amiganet.chi.il.us

	I also get this message when I try to start it using 1.3 ROMS.
	Using 2.0 ROMS and starting it from WB works just fine.

***Vincent***
From: gickdj2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Damian_Gick)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: 1 meg Chip Demos?
Date: 12 Apr 92 05:56:46 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Originator: gickdj2@sage.cc.purdue.edu

Are there any good (mega)demos that work with one meg of chip RAM? Does anyone
have the Manga Demo (I saw an ad for P/D software in a European magazine and
they mentioned it)? [Is it any good/worth uploading to ab20 before it closes?]

Thanks!


-- 

Damian John Gick  | gickdj2@sage.cc.purdue.edu  |  And keep on thinking free!
CS Undergrad      |                             |       -- The Moody Blues
From: egodula@amiganet.chi.il.us (Edmund Godula)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Odyssey Demo
Date: 15 Apr 92 07:55:35 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

I just got this hard disk installation program for the Odyssey megademo from Alacatraz written by the authors of the demo, but when I try to run the demo off of the hard drive, I get an error message that pops up at the top of the screen saying, "Execbase in Chip Ram!", and it stops loading.  I used Sysinfo to check this out, and Exec's node was in Chip Ram.  Has anyone ever come across this particular error before, and is there a possible solution that would allow me to run this demo on the hard drive?  T

hanks for any help!

Edmund Godula
egodula@amiganet.chi.il.us
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 14:34:29 EDT
From: <JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Re: Head Morph ANIM
 <1992Apr9.093343.1@happy.colorado.edu>

It's not a DPaint IV morph.  I did this using Imagine 2.0 for a class project.
It is a human head morphing from a free floating plane set against a starfield.
I gave the object chrome attributes and used a still image created with
DPaintIV as a global brush to reflect upon the chrome.

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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 16 Apr 1992 10:08:16 MST
From: <IGAMS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Re: BONO Rules

what?
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
From: pisces@cs.mcgill.ca (L. M. P. McPherson)
Subject: New Astrological Program (from Russia)
Originator: pisces@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 02:03:25 GMT



Message Forwarded From: Walther@cancer.msk.su (Andrey D. Mikhailow)

Hi, folks!!!

My friend Fedor suggest me to send in this group his  astrological
program. It  can run  under DOS,  required EGA,  VGA or  Hercules;
its size is about  340 K (I think  UUencoded a few more).  Program
has nice help on both  English and Russian. But I'm  troubled with
several questions:

Can I send UUencodet executable files in this Usenet Newsgroup?

Should I do it?

If both Yes - On what Kb pisces I must slice program?

Andrey.

-- 
*  In Real Life: Andrey D. Mikhailow        *InterNET: Walther@doctor.msk.su *
*    Solar sign: Scorpio                    *          Walther@cancer.msk.su *
* Post:  Cancer Research Center of RAMS,    *   Voice:  +7 095 3241509       *
* Kashirskoe sh. 24, Moscow, 115478, Russia *     Fax:  +7 095 3245585       *
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
From: cahoon@cs.umn.edu (Forrest Clinton Cahoon)
Subject: Heliocentric and other planet-centric charts
Keywords: heliocentric charts
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:27:27 GMT

Does anyone out there use heliocentric charts?

I have an idea that a chart could be calculated from each of the
planets, which would each show very different relationships due to the
actual physical positions of the planets in space.

When I understand the Neely algorithms well enough, I plan to
implement this capability into Astrolog.

The way I see it, for instance my Mars-centered chart could address
the question "how does my Mars-energy (passion, creativity) ``see''
the other elements my personality, represented by other planets"?

A long time ago, I laboriously performed these calculations for my own
chart(s) by hand.  I've since lost what I've done, but there is one
thing I remember which could serve to illustrate the principle.

I have Mars in Pisces, and Venus in Aries.  However, Mars "sees" Venus
in Cancer, and conversely Venus "sees" Mars in Capricorn.

Oh, shoot, I don't have the time to elaborate on this now ... gotta go
to class.  One more comment though ... we could get a whole table of
which planets see which other planets as going retrograde.

Any interest out there?  I've been consistently told "but that's
stupid -- people were _born_ on Earth!" by the amateur astrologers
I've met.  (That doesn't stop me -- hell, it goads me on.)

Later.   f




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From: serasst@admin.acadiau.ca (Yvette Davison)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: What sign was the moon in when.
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:10:35 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

If anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated.

 I have tried to figure out which sign the moon was in at the time
of my birth.  The two books I used that had instructions made it very
confusing for me (almost required a mathematics degree!).

 I tried another way using a friend's birthday and knowing which sign
the moon was in then.  I am not sure if it worked out accurately.

  Born 10:27pm Atlantic Standard Time   Nov. 25, 1964  (2:27am GMT)
       45 deg. latitude, 62.2 deg. longitude.

  Thanks to anyone.

 Yvette
 serasst@admin.acadiau.ca
From: cahoon@cs.umn.edu (Forrest Clinton Cahoon)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Sophia (Re: Conference Announcement)
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:31:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr8.223121.19059
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

In article <1992Apr7.090839.22307@cs.mcgill.ca> pisces@cs.mcgill.ca (L. M. P. McPherson) writes:
>
>
>Message Forwarded From: Walther@cancer.msk.su (Andrey D. Mikhailow)
>
>                  Dear friends and colleagues,
>we are pleased  to invite you  to take part  in the Urania-92  and
>AURA International Congress on  the theme "Sophia will  return..."
>

I am interested in Goddess religions, but not very educated in this
area.  Can someone tell me about "Sophia"?  Is this a tradition
emerging specifically from Russian pre-Christian culture, or is it
from elsewhere?

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|  Forrest Cahoon      | cahoon@cs.umn.edu |------------------------------|
|  850 21st Ave SE     |-------------------| Only unbalanced people       |
|  Mpls MN  55414-2514 |                   |        can tip the scales... |
From: givanov@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Ace Maverick)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: BONO Rules
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:03:22 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Keywords: 

  Hello people out there in TV la..  ooops, predetermined destiny land.

From what I managed to pick up from the newsgroup in the last couple of months,
"..the making up of a chart is extremely time consuming and difficult..";
but, since it IS my bday today, I was feeling kind of optimistic and that's
how the stupid posting appeared on the newsgroup.
	Is there anyone out there (don't have to be an amateur), who
is kind and gracious enough to make a chart for me? It might be asking 
the impossible, but it doesn't have to be a complete or detailed one!
Thanks in advance!

Born: April 12th 1972 --6:20 am.
Georgi Ivanov.
From: alanj@dadd.ti.com (Alan Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: astrology question
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:11:39 GMT


First, thanx to everyone who sent me advice on getting a reading done.

Bev - my email is bouncing - is bcarroll@sundance.spk.wa.us correct?

I was reading a book on astrology a while ago, and I don't remember the
particulars, but it had some methods for analyzing the compatibility between
a male and a female.  The methods seemed to indicate that my wife and I are *very* compatible (gee - I didn't know that!).  After looking at the data I
noticed that we were born almost EXACTLY 0.75 of a year apart.  (We aren't
sure of her birth time, but from our estimate the difference is 3 hours from
being exactly 0.75 of a year!)

Whaddaya think?  Coincidence??

sincerely,
Alan Jones  /  Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX  /  email=alanj@dadd.ti.com
From: keho@quads.uchicago.edu (david kehoe)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Chicago's underground flood
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:24:49 GMT
Reply-To: keho@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Does anyone have a birth chart for Chicago?  All I could
find was that it was incorporated in 1837.  The next time
I'm downtown I'll look at the monument on the site of Fort
Dearborn, which could be seen as the birth of the city.

Something very strange happened in Chicago today.  Apparently
there is a system of tunnels all through downtown Chicago
that connect the basements of the buildings.  Construction work
in the river (to repair a bridge, I think) broke a hole "the
size of a Buick" in the wall between the river and the tunnel.
250 million gallons of water flooded the tunnel and the basements
of all the buildings downtown -- the Sears Tower, Marshall Fields
dept. store, etc.  As these buildings have their power equipment
in their basements, power was shut off to all of downtown
Chicago.  100,000 or more employees went home.  Damage will be
extraordinary.  No one was injured though.

After the hole gets fixed, engineers plan to drill a hole to 
another, deeper set of tunnels, which the water would then pour
into.

This all sounds very symbolic -- unexpected, underground,
water, electricity, deeper tunnels.  The Chicago River flows
backwards, since a canal was built to the Mississippi at the
turn of the century (so the water is clean, just coming from
Lake Michigan.  BTW, it's a beautiful green color, quite bright,
although the lake is blue...I don't understand why the water
is green).  I was just wondering what the transit could be.
-- 
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692.
Thomas David Kehoe    keho@midway.uchicago.edu    (312) 753-0119
From: casper@vxcrna.cern.ch (CASPER,DAVI./PPE)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Re: back issues of MATRIX magazine -- what I need to improve Astrolog
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:49:00 GMT
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr16.005957.27994@cs.umn.edu>, cahoon@cs.umn.edu (Forrest Clinton Cahoon) writes...
>In order to make various improvements to Astrolog, including the other
>planet-centric charts about which I have recently posted, I need to
>understand the Neely routines used in Astrolog.

Well, I obviously don't have any of the astrology magazines (I'm the skeptic
here, remember; you didn't think I went away, did you?) But I doubt anything
beyond intermediate trigonometry is needed to do charts with respect to some
other point.  A quick perusal of the astrolog code reveals that basically
the routine planets() first calculates the heliocentric positions in cartesian
coordinates.  Except in the case of the Sun, a planet's position is found
by subtracting the Earth's position vector from the planet's.  The result is
it's position relative to the Earth.  To do a chart centered somewhere else,
all you need to do is subtract that planet's position vector instead of Earth's.
The Sun is not even really a special case: it is the origin, so to get it's
apparent position from a planet, just take the negative of the planet's
position; or in other words subtract it from zero.

If you want we can discuss this further.  Perhaps there are other things you
want to do which are more complicated.

Understanding the more complicated algorithm for computing heliocentric position
is probably unneeded, since that is the starting point for all the other
calculations, and I doubt you want to alter the celestial mechanics of the
program.


Dave Casper
CERN - Geneva
casper@vxcrna.cern.ch
From: simon@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Simon)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Re: symbol for chiron...
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:25:19 GMT
Organization: One Hundred Pounds Per Second

In article <1992Apr3.202206.19464@yenta.alb.nm.us>, karenm@yenta.alb.nm.us (Karen Millar) writes:
> 
> 	I have the symbols for everything but Chiron... can anyone
> send me a picture of it??? I do not have X-windows, but DO have
> microsoft windows... also I have scanned and edited all the other
> symbols to my satisfaction and have them in a 0-1 bitmap format for
> easy transport on the net... (ascii)

The one I've seen looks like this:


                 |/
                 |\
                 O

################################################################################
# Simon Day @ BT, Angel Centre, London          simon@cyborg.bt.co.uk          #
# "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."   -   William Blake    #
################################################################################
From: cahoon@cs.umn.edu (Forrest Clinton Cahoon)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Re: Solar Returns
Date: 12 Apr 92 01:01:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr12.010145.3463
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

In article <s4n7lINN1aa@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU> Carole@brownvm (Carolyn Egan) writes:
> [...]
>Now, for your question - Why a s.r. chart?  (scuze, I'm Gemini) Sorry I don't
>use the Astrolog.  I use  the Nova program from Astrolabe.
>
>The s.r. chart is erected each year for the exact time your Sun returns to its
>natal position. If you were born with your Sun at 8 degrees 48 min of whatever 
>sign, then the next year when the Sun returns to that place, it could be on the 
>day before, day after or on the same day of your birthday but a different time.
>The chart is therefore a transit chart of that time when the Sun returns to 
>8:48.  

OK, to do this with Astrolog -- this is kind of a kludge, but you can
do it...first you find the time & date of your solar return by using
the -T option.  The solar return transit has "(Solar Return)" printed
on that line in Astrolog's output, so if I was born in March and had
my Astrolog data in a file called fc.data, I could say

astrolog -T fc.data 3 1992 | grep 'Solar Return'

and get just the appropriate line to print out.  This gives you the
date and time for your return chart.  (Note that this time is the for
the default time zone specified in your astrolog.h file -- usually
where you're at, so no prob.)  Now, go ahead and do a natal chart for
this data.  There's your solar return chart!

I guess someone clever could write a script using awk to do this all
automatically.  Somaday, I may do this, and if I do I'll post it here.
In the meantime, if someone else beats me to it, please post.

>
>That's all for now, regards  Carol.
>

If you get inspired to write more about solar returns, Carol, I'm
listening.

f

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|  Forrest Cahoon      | cahoon@cs.umn.edu |------------------------------|
|  850 21st Ave SE     |-------------------| Only unbalanced people       |
|  Mpls MN  55414-2514 |                   |        can tip the scales... |
From: tvis04@tvis1.tv.tek.com (KATHY DAILEY)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: This is only a test
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:10:31 GMT
Organization: Tektronix TV Division

Please excuse post, it is only a test

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Kathy Dailey                TV Division, Tektronix Inc.
From: karenm@yenta.alb.nm.us (Karen Millar)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Re: symbol for chiron...THANKS!!!I'VE GOT IT!!
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:37:06 GMT
Organization: yenta unix pc, rio rancho, nm

simon@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Simon) writes:

>In article <1992Apr3.202206.19464@yenta.alb.nm.us>, karenm@yenta.alb.nm.us (Karen Millar) writes:
>> 
>> 	I have the symbols for everything but Chiron... can anyone
>> send me a picture of it??? I do not have X-windows, but DO have
>> microsoft windows... also I have scanned and edited all the other
>> symbols to my satisfaction and have them in a 0-1 bitmap format for
>> easy transport on the net... (ascii)

>The one I've seen looks like this:


>                 |/
>                 |\
>                 O

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request... I do believe I've
got it now... hehehe

Net-hugs!!! Karen.


-- 
    Love is the answer...
	Communication Facilities Designer
	Freelance in the Land of Enchantment              Albuquerque, NM
	karenm@yenta.alb.nm.us                             (505) 266-8659
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
From: pisces@cs.mcgill.ca (L. M. P. McPherson)
Subject: New Astrological Program (from Russia)
Originator: pisces@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 02:08:30 GMT



Message Forwarded From: Walther@cancer.msk.su (Andrey D. Mikhailow)

Hi, folks!!!

My friend Fedor suggest me to send in this group his  astrological
program. It  can run  under DOS,  required EGA,  VGA or  Hercules;
its size is about  340 K (I think  UUencoded a few more).  Program
has nice help on both  English and Russian. But I'm  troubled with
several questions:

Can I send UUencodet executable files in this Usenet Newsgroup?

Should I do it?

If both Yes - On what Kb pisces I must slice program?

Andrey.

-- 
*  In Real Life: Andrey D. Mikhailow        *InterNET: Walther@doctor.msk.su *
*    Solar sign: Scorpio                    *          Walther@cancer.msk.su *
* Post:  Cancer Research Center of RAMS,    *   Voice:  +7 095 3241509       *
* Kashirskoe sh. 24, Moscow, 115478, Russia *     Fax:  +7 095 3245585       *
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
From: cahoon@cs.umn.edu (Forrest Clinton Cahoon)
Subject: Mercury symbolism -- the Cadeusis
Keywords: Mercury, Cadeusis
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:27:22 GMT

Speaking of the symbolism of Mercury, I find the symbol of the wand
with two serpents coiled around it -- the Cadeusis -- most intriguing
(although perhaps not enough to learn how to spell it correctly).

The Cadeusis seems to me to be the archetypal repersentation of the
DNA double helix.  Think of it -- this symbol is assoiciated both with
the Messenger (information) and Life (as it's ubiquitous association
with the medical profession attests).

DNA is the language of life itself.

Of course the serpents relate the Cadeusis to the Kundalini
Life-Force, which is the source of magickal power ...




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|  Forrest Cahoon      | cahoon@cs.umn.edu |------------------------------|
|  850 21st Ave SE     |-------------------| Only unbalanced people       |
|  Mpls MN  55414-2514 |                   |        can tip the scales... |