From: pbenson@ecst.csuchico.edu (Paul A. Benson)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
Subject: Graphics CD-ROM: Descriptive Contents & Info
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:12:27 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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Jan 27, 1993

I have received many requests for the full 245,000 byte directory
listing for the disc. Since this file is quite large to post and
much of it is a file by file listing of .c & .h source files, I felt
that a descriptive listing of the subdirectories would be more
helpful. Below is a description of the contents of our CD-ROM

Thanks for your continued interest in our products

Paul A. Benson
Knowledge Media


    Knowledge Media's Resource Library, Disc-1 Graphics


Disc-1 Graphics- is a collection of more than 426 MegaBytes of popular
public domain, shareware, and freeware graphics programs and data files.
The disc contains more than 1200 programs, 16,000 files.

The following is a list of the various subdirectories on the disc and a
description of the files contained.


_ARCHIVE-	The compressed archives of the various programs expanded
				on the disc in the other subdirectories.
_UTILITI-	A collection of various utility applications, such
				as archive programs, display applications,
				players, etc.
3DDRAWKT-	3-D OBJECT EDITOR/VIEWER for the Amiga
ANIM - 		a collection of animation data files for display
ANIMATE- 	Animation players for the Amiga ( 8 applications, 4 with source)
				and IBM PC( a windows player)
BIT_BLT-	a blitter laboratory with source for the Amiga
CASE_TLS-	Two applications for the Amiga computer which convert images
				into c source for inclusion in applications
CCS-		Complex Conversion System (CCS-	The CCS is a standard software 
				interface for image processing in which users and programmers
				can easily manipulate various images without worrying about
				image types, such as GIF, RLE, TIFF, etc.; the CCS also
				provides many debug and image manipulation functions.
				Unix source and executable for Sun Micro Computers.
CELLSIM-	Cellsim v2.5, Unix source and executable for Sun Micro Computers.
COMPOSIT-	NCSA CompositeTool Version 1.1 source code and documentation.			
COMPRESN-	JPEG ver 3 source, and 5 conversion programs for the IBM PC ( 2 with
				source).
CONTOUR		A contour plot program for X-windows.
CONVRTRS-	Graphic conversion progrms for the Amiga, IBMPC, and Apple Macintosh.
				Amiga-	21 applications (5 with source).
				IBMPC-	10 applications ( no source available)
				MAC - 	 4 applications ( no source available)
DKB-		 DKBTrace 2.12-  This ray tracer was written by David K. Buck.
				Source and executables for Unix, MAC, IBMPC, and Amiga included.
DRAW-		Two drawing programs for the Amiga, Contour 4D, and Vertex.
FBM-		Release 1.0 of the Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation (FBM) library of programs.
				This collection (in combination with Jef Poskanzer's PBM collection)
				provides a complete package for manipulating and converting color
				and black and whites images, including 24bit RGB, 8bit mapped color,
				8bit grayscale, and 1bit bitmapped images.
FIGURES		An Amiga application to generate  Spheric Lissajous Curves.
FITS-		A program for the Macintosh to work with files in the FITS format.
FORMATS-	37 sub directories containing documentation describing various graphic
				image and animation formats. Among those covered are GIF, TIF, ANIM, CGM,
				FITS, FLI, IFF, JPEG, KODAK CC, LZW, NFF, OFF, TARGA.
FRACTAL-	7 Fractal generating Applications for the Amiga( 3 with source) and 4 for the
				IBM PC ( 2 with source) 
FRACTINT-	A Fractal generating program for the IBM PC with source.
GEMS-		The source for the graphic functions in the described in the books
				Graphics Gems, Graphics Gems II and Graphics Gems III published
				by Academic Press.
GEOMUTIL-	The INTR_LIB tool - an interaction
				graphics library for MSDOS environment. This library provide basic windowing
				facilities, pop up and pull down menus, and support keyboard, mouse and
				joystick devices.
				This library can currently be compiled for MSDOS using Borland's BC++
				compiler or DJGPP - the gcc port for 386 machines.
GEOMVIEW-	9 Geometric manipulation applications for UNIX with source.
				4dview, animate, corners, geomutil, ginsu, mathoogl, sweep, transform.
GLE-		GLE is a hi quality graphics package for scientists.  GLE combines a user friendly
				interface with a full range of facilities for producing publication quality
				graphs, diagrams, posters and slides.  GLE runs on PC's, VAXes and Unix. Source
				is included for adaptation to new systems.
GRAPHTAL-	 GRAPHTAL 1 "October 27, 1992 - A  L-system generation program. Graphtal is a tool
				for manipulating L-systems (context free, table oriented L-systems with stochastic
				productions). Graphtal reads a file containing an L-system description and starts
				the interpretation. In addition, graphtal is able to interpret the result
				graphically, producing different kinds of output. The main reference for the
				program is the book The Virtual Laboratory: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants.
HDF-		NCSA HDF Vset Version 2.0 source code and documentation. The HDF Vset is a new storage
				scheme that allows more than raster images, palettes, scientific datasets and
				annotations to be stored in the HDF file.
ICOONS-		ICoons v. 1.0- ICoons is a spline based object modeller which can be used  to  generate
				objects in TTDDD format.
IMAGE311-	NCSA Audible Image for Microsoft Windows is a visualization tool for use in the
				Microsoft Windows 3.0 environment.  Image can load and display Windows BMP and HDF
				raster images in a MDI display window. Mac executables are also provides.  
IMAGES-		BLM (4), GIF (2), JPG (20), LANDSAT (1), AND NASA (14) image data for use with the various
				applications provided on this disc.
IMAGETOO-	NCSA ImageTool- NCSA ImageTool is a utility that provides a variety of methods for 
				visualizing a set of data points. Color images, contour plots, 3D plots, and XY graphs
				are mechanisms that you employ to "see" the data. Contour plots, 3D plots, and XY 
				graphs can be printed. Color images can be magnified, composited, and, to some degree,
				edited.
IMG_PRCS-	4 Applications for the IBM PC to process images.
IMG_PROC-	4 Image processing pplications for the Amiga, 1 for IBM PC ( Windows), and 1 UNIX.
INETRAY-	Inetray is an application allowing you to raytrace an image using a lot of machines. 
				The task is dynamically distributed to all machines offering this service.
IRIT-		IRIT solid modeler for the IBM PC. Executables and source are included.
ITTICOLO-	ISC ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualization project.
KALEIDO-	Kaleido(1) source for "Uniform Solution for Uniform Polyhedra". Author: Dr. Zvi Har'El.
KALI-		Kali:		an interactive 2-D Euclidean symmetric pattern editor.
KAOS-		A UNIX chaos program.
LINK_EDI-	A program for interactively editing link projections.  Conceptually, a link
			(in 3 dimensions) is a collection of non-intersecting closed curves.  A link projection
			is an orthographic projection of such a link onto a plane, with over/under crossings
			appropriately marked.
MAPPING-	2 Amiga and 1 IBM PC global mapping application with data.
MATH_FIG-	An Amiga Lissajou drawing program.
MICRORAY-	A ray tracing program with source.
MODELING-	A chemical molecular modeling program for the Amiga.
MOVIES-		A movie data file for the Amiga and a mpeg data file for the IBM PC.
MTV-		MTV RAYTRACER - The input format to this ray tracer is called "NFF" or Neutral File Format,
				which was invented by Eric Haines' for his Standard Procedural Database.
NAKEDEYE-	NakedEye A SuperVga GIF viewer.
NFF-		File description and filter source for Eric Haine's NFF.
OBJECTS-	138 OFF objects and 8 NFF objects for use with raytracing applications on this disc.
OFF-		This directory contains the source code for off.a, a library that contains
				utilities for reading and writing Object File Format (OFF) files.
OHTA-		This is a public domain ray tracing program with the following features:
				* shadows
				* specular reflection
				* transparency with refraction
				* antialiasing
				* high speed
				It computes ray-object intersections very fast by exploiting ray coherence.
				For many scenes, the program can compute ray-object intersections in constant time,
				regardless of the number of objects.
PAINT-		2- Paint programs for the Amiga, 2 programs for IBM PC Windows environment,
				and 3 for the MAC.
PARI-		The PARI system is a package, available for the MAC, OS/2, NEXT, UNIX, and MS-DOS,
				which is capable of doing formal computations
				on recursive types at high speed; it is primarily aimed at number
				theorists, but can be used by people whose primary need is speed.
				Although quite an amount of symbolic manipulation is possible in PARI, this
				system does very badly compared to much more sophisticated systems like
				Reduce, Macsyma, Maple, Mathematica or Scratchpad (now Axiom) on such
				manipulations (e.g. multivariate polynomials, formal integration, etc\dots).
				On the other hand, the two main advantages of the system is its speed (which
				can be between 5 and 100 times better on many computations than the above
				mentioned systems), and the possibility of using directly data types which
				are familiar to mathematicians.  
PBM-		Extended Portable Bitmap Toolkit for Amiga, IBM PC, and UNIX with source.
PCSHOW-		This is version 1.11 of NCSA PCShow. PC Show is a public domain program designed 
				for displaying raster 8 binary images and images contained in HDF files.
PHIGS-		Library with source of a PHIGS Toolkit.
PLOT-		Plotter programs - A surface plotter for the Amiga, and PCGPLOT for the IBM PC.
POPI-		Popi v3.2.1-  This version is based on the code in the Prentice Hall book,
				*  "Beyond Photography - the digital darkroom," ISBN 0-13-074410-7.
POV-		Persistence of Vision Raytracer - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer creates
				three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called
				ray tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the
				objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the
				view point of a camera also described in the text file. Source for Amiga, MAC,
				UNIX, and IBM PC provided as well as extensive library of image and data tables.
PRT-		Prt is a parallel raytracer which will run across machines that are networked 
				together via TCP/IP. Prt consists of two programs:	
				- prt: the front end system
				- rt: the raytracing engine.
PXM_RAY-	A simple ray tracing program developed at RPI.  It incorporates shadows, reflections
				and refraction together with one non-directional light source.  The light source
				can diffuse on the surfaces and can also give specular reflections.  The 
				illumination model used is by Phong.
QRT-		Quick Ray Trae- This is source and executable for various qrt versions for the Amiga.
RADIANCE-	Greg Ward's Radiance 2.0 for the Amiga and IBM PC with source.
RAY_20-		This is the second version of a simple ray tracer written  at RPI.  
				The second version expanded its capabilities with the inclusion of 
				distributed ray tracing.
RAY_SLID-	 Rayshade and Utah Raster Toolkit slides- a collection of 33+ slides to introduce 
				Rayshade (and the Utah Raster Toolkit).
RAYSHADE-	This is version 4.0 of rayshade, a ray tracing program. Rayshade reads a multi-line
				ASCII file describing a scene to be rendered and produces a Utah Raster Toolkit
				"RLE" format file containing the ray traced image. Systems supported include UNIX,
				MAC, Amiga, and IBM PC. Source is included.

REND386-	A collection of rendering programs.
SCRNGRAB-	2 Screen capture probrams for the Amiga, 3 for MS-DOS and 7 for use in Windows 3.x.
SIPP_3_0-	SIPP  --  3d rendering package-  This is SIPP, the SImple Polygon Processor, version 3.0.
				SIPP is a library for creating 3-dimensional scenes and rendering them using a
				scan-line z-buffer algorithm.
TARGS-		Targs serves as a foundation for building interactive programs. It interprets the user's
				input, evaluates expressions, and executes the desired subroutines.
TIFF30-		TIFF Software "Release" 3.00 --This is Version 3.00  TIFF support software. Included is 
				a library, libtiff, for reading and writing TIFF files. 
				The library, along with associated tool programs, should handle most of needs for 
				reading and writing files that follow the 5.0 TIFF spec for Classes B, G, P, and R. 
				There is also considerable support for proposed additions that are to appear in the
				6.0 TIFF specifiations.
SIPP30A-	Tcl-SIPP 3.0a--This package provides a Tcl command interface to the SIPP rendering program.
TTDDD-		Textual TDDD - for  TurboSilver file manipulation on the Amiga. With an extensive
				55-subdirectories, collection of object data files, binaries, and source.
URT-		THE UTAH RASTER TOOLKIT-The  Utah  Raster  Toolkit  is a set of programs for manipulating and
				composing raster images.
VIEWERS-	Image viewing programs for the Amiga( 28 applications), Atari(9),IBM PC (26), Mac (12) and
				Unix(15) systems. Some of the formats represented include GIF(40 files) and JPEG( 26 files).
VOGLE-		VOGLE is a device portable graphics library that is loosely based on the Silicon Graphics Iris GL.
VOPL-		VOPL is a library of routines for doing fits and graph plots written using the VOGLE graphics library.
VORT-		VORT - a very ordinary rendering tool-kit. Version 2.1.2 
				VORT is a collection of tools and a library for the generation and manipulation of images. 
				It includes a ray tracer, pixel library, and utilities for doing gamma correction, median cuts, etc...

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