HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: quandt@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Brian Quandt)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.multimedia,comp.compression,alt.graphics
Subject: Xing and MPEG stuff
Keywords: mpeg
Date: 26 Jul 92 02:57:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.graphics
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

I have started to write my own MPEG codec and I have been using the 
MPEG data files by Xing for testing.  I remember a question posted to
this newsgroup about the file format of these files.  It appears to be
just a raw MPEG datastream with a few oddities.  First, the frame
rate is an illegal value (i.e., according to my reading of the 
MPEG-I docs a value of 9 in the frame rate field is illegal (has
no definition)) and secondly, the picture size seems to be 180x120pixels.

Can anyone else confirm this?  Secondly, anything else people may 
have found that are odd about these encodings?

Next, if anyone could explain why the MPEG committee decided to
do this I'd like to know for curiousities sake.  I have not completed
my coding yet but I believe MPEG should be more concerned with
byte alignment.  For example in the intra and non-intra Q tables byte
alignment may or may not occur if the intra-Q table does or
does not follow.  If the intra-Q tables follwows then it looks like
the following table (64 bytes) needs all be shifted left by 1 bit to 
get it to byte align.  I think what they should have done is just
used 2 bits (without splitting the indicator bits with tabl data)
	00 -> no tables follow
	01 -> non-intra Q tbl follows
	10 -> intra Q tbl follows
	11 -> both tbls follow

Actually, the above is the only part I have found of MPEG-I that seems
odd to me.  The rest seems to be very well thought out and so far
includes links or has designed in abilities that allow me to do
what I need to do.

								Brian Quandt
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.multimedia,comp.compression,alt.graphics
From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
Subject: New MPEG 3D-animation posted to a.b.p.misc
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:38:39 GMT
Summary: mpeg
Keywords: mpeg

Hi,
I have posted a new MPEG animation to alt.binaries.pictures.misc
newsgroup. Get it from there !

Here comes the info file:


Hi,

the "bird is back again"  !!!

This is a new MPEG-animation done with the 3DStudio and the Xing MPEG
encoder.

Enjoy it !

It is a 241 frames long animation in 320x240 pixel screen size format.

I have converted it from the FLIC-file to MPEG with the Xing Technology
MPEG encoder.

To view it You need the Player-archive MPEGXING.LZH, which is the
MPEG-player for win3.x !

It is available via anonymous FTP  at  phoenix.oulu.fi (130.231.240.17) in
/pub/mpeg

I hope You like this animation. 

Best regards, Stefan Hartmann, c/o Hartmann electronics, Multimedia Services.

voice: ++ 49 30 344 23 66  FAX: ++ 49 30 344 92 79    (Berlin,Germany)
email on Internet: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de



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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: anton@cv.ruu.nl (Anton H.J. Koning)
Subject: Re: 24 bit display of 24 bit images in X on DECStation 5000/240
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:07:32 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group
Keywords: 24 bit

I don't know what the first poster based his conclusion on that xloadimage
converts to 8 bits. We have the latest version running on our 24-bit
HP9000/835 Turbo SRX (My computer type's name is more complex than yours ;-)
under X11R4, and it most certainly is 24 bit. It also runs on our other
machines: HP9000/7xx, Sun Sparcstation 1 and Tektronix XD88/10 workstations.
Although it does not offer all 'image processing' options of xv-2.21 it is
a lot faster, esp. during start up. It is available from export.lcs.mit.edu
(18.24.0.12).
                                          Happy displaying.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          Drs. Anton H.J. Koning
 Research Assistant  -     University of Utrecht     - E-mail: anton@cv.ruu.nl
 3D Computer Vision  -  University Hospital Utrecht  -    The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: sjm@miles.com (Scott Mark)
Subject: Re: FAQ as requested
Organization: Miles Inc., Diagnostics Division, Elkhart, IN
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:56:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.165710.22257@news.clarkson.edu> abstine@calvin.erc.clarkson.edu writes:
>>If you want to take responsibility for posting a FAQ regularly, by
>>all means, go ahead and create one.  If you want to post someone else's
>>seven months out of date work, fuck you very much.
>>---
>>Jef
>
>
>Sigh... I thought the FAQ wars were over... 
>
>Jef, if you are going to be like this about the FAQ, then hand it over to SOMEONE
>else... you are doing everyone a disservice by acting like this...
>either fish or cut bait... go back to posting the FAQ or let someone else do it...
>Art Stine

Hey, Art- why don't YOU fish or cut bait?  Or at least read what was written?

> by all means, go ahead and create one.

So saying "hand it over" is bullshit.  If someone wants to figure out what
questions belong and do the research for the answers, then let 'em.

But an obviously ungrateful group of people don't deserve the results of
the work that Jef did.  So write your own FAQ, Art.  Get a set of questions,
look up the answers, and you can start posting Art's Very Own c.g. FAQ.

							Scott

BTW, did you know that using "..." at the end of every sentence is
considered by analysts to be a sign of incomplete thinking?


Flame off.  I'm too sick of the one-sided Jef-bashing going on.
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
Subject: Comp.graphics.research?
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 16:33:03 GMT



I'm wondering what happened to comp.graphics.research newsgroup.
I sent a reply on projecting ellipsoid on to plane at the
beginning of june and I have now requested moderator via e-mail
twice without any reply.

What is the problem?

I think we should soon replace current moderator with new one.


Juhana Kouhia
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: coroas@cs.sfu.ca (Roger Coroas)
Subject: Re: Latest Source of XV - Please Post
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:48:42 GMT

Hi:

Can somebody post the address to get XV via ftp?

Thanks,  Roger Coroas

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coroas@cs.sfu.ca        Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: luke@cowan.edu.au (L.RAYNER)
Subject: Request:  Mode-X BGI driver
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:56:30 GMT

Could someone please tell me if they know of (or have written) a BGI driver for that wonderful VGA mode -  MODE-X?

I would like to do some graphics work in Borland c++ v3.0 or Turbo C++.
From: abstine@calvin.erc.clarkson.edu (Art Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: FAQ as requested
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:57:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul28.165710.22257
Reply-To: abstine@calvin.erc.clarkson.edu
Organization: Clarkson University

In article jef@netcom.com, jef@netcom.com (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
>jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia):
>}I sent this yesterday, but the article was deteled by system(?).
>
>By me, actually.  Since you apparently can't understand why posting
>it is wrong, I didn't bother notifying you.  I've cancelled your
>repost too.
>
>If you want to take responsibility for posting a FAQ regularly, by
>all means, go ahead and create one.  If you want to post someone else's
>seven months out of date work, fuck you very much.
>---
>Jef
>
>           Jef Poskanzer  jef@netcom.com  jef@well.sf.ca.us
> "If John Muir were alive today, you'd cross the street to avoid him."
>                           -- Carter Scholz


Sigh... I thought the FAQ wars were over... 

Jef, if you are going to be like this about the FAQ, then hand it over to SOMEONE
else... you are doing everyone a disservice by acting like this...

either fish or cut bait... go back to posting the FAQ or let someone else do it...

---
Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U
ABStine@calvin.erc.Clarkson.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: ledwards@leland.Stanford.EDU (Laurence James Edwards)
Subject: Re: fitting to a NURBS surface
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 21:17:46 GMT

In article <Bruq27.BCn@hplabs.hpl.hp.com>, sacchi@hpl.hp.com (Cristiano Sacchi) writes:
|> Look for Computer Graphics and Applications. Last year
|> there was a survay about NURBS written by Les Pigl.

The name is Leslie Piegl I believe.

Larry Edwards
edwards@sunrise.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,bit.listserv.i-amiga
From: Frank.Neumann@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Frank Neumann)
Subject: Re: POV-Ray 1.0 Released
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:26:19 GMT
Keywords: POV-Ray raytrace ftp

Hello there,
dbuck@alfred.carleton.ca (Dave Buck) writes:

>   The POV-Ray (Persistance of Vision) raytracing program version 1.0
>   is now available for anonymous FTP.  POV-Ray is based on my
>   DKBTrace program and has been developed with my permission by the
>   POV-Team.

>   You can get POV-Ray from:
[..]
>   from overseas, please use (allowing a few days to make the files visible):

>      ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (134.106.1.9)

I just ftp'ed the whole distribution from Canada. So, now all files are
available from the above mentioned site,
directory /pub/dkbtrace/POV-Ray1.0

The files are verbatim copies from those at Canada, file names and sizes
are the same. So those of you who get better transfer rates to us than to
Canada, here's your alternative to Canada.

Have fun,
Frank
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: tabaer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Troy A Baer)
Subject: MS Windows shell for POV-Ray?
Summary: Where?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 04:13:52 GMT

I just downloaded POV-Ray v1.0 MSDOS version from alfred.ccs.carleton.ca,
and noticed in the docs that there are one or more programs for running
POV-Ray through MS Windows without opening a DOS window and running it from
the command line -- setting the file to render and all the other bookkeeping
stuff through menus.  Does anyone know of an FTPable site for such a beast,
if it does in fact exist?

Please respond via E-mail.  I will post a summary if enough people express
interest.

	--Troy
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Note:  Most leading theologians claim this argument is a load of dingo's
	kidneys.
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: anderson@zymurgy.bms.com (Jay Anderson)
Subject: sun rasterfile to gif/gem/pic/pcx/...etc
Organization: BMS Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:39:09 GMT

I have some sun rasterfiles (b&w) that I want to convert into one of the above mentioned
formats.  I have pbmplus, but am at a loss as to which of the multitude of converters to
run.  What I want to do is get it into a pbm format, as there is a pbmto{gif|gem..etc}.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jay



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From: fernando@an.isl.titech.ac.jp (Fernando)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: PROBLEMS WITH 'NM'
Date: 23 Jul 92 05:09:47 GMT
Distribution: comp.graphics
Organization: Imaging Science and Engineering Lab., Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan


  If you have problems to execute the nm* file after uploading the NM
2.0 package, try changing the nm to xnm and run "xnm". It will work.
  
  >mv nm xnm
  >xnm

 Hope it helps!
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark Thomsen)
Subject: Re: Noise Reducing w/ Edge Enhancement
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:50:33 GMT

Jon Elion writes
> Would be interested in from anyone who has experience with image
> filtering techniques for noise reduction that simultaneously ENHANCE
> edges.  Normally, these two operations are mutually exclusive (as
> noise reduction can tend to BLUR edges, not sharpen them).  There
> exist non-linear approaches that achieve this goal (although
> tending to be computationally very intensive).

For SAR speckle reduction the goal (in general) is to remove the
"noise" that results from coherent illumination of surfaces "rough"
at the illumination wavelength. Most techniques are either based on
multiple looks (different angles or different frequencies), where
the signal reinforces and the "noise" averages out, or on filters
that effectively smooth the image (causing edges and point features
to smooth/blur as well). The speckle tends to be complex Gaussian.

An approach we found to work well is the Crimmins filter. It is
morphological (and non-linear) and seems to be good for reducing the
graininess while preserving high frequency features. The reference
I know of is

  T.R. Crimmins, "Geometric Filter for Speckle Reduction", Applied
  Optics, Vol. 24, pp. 1438-1443, 1985.

Best of luck,

Mark R. Thomsen
From: erich@eye.com (Eric Haines)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Ray Tracing Roundtable location
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:28:59 GMT
Summary: Lobby Room #14, 5:15-6:15 Thursday
Distribution: world
Organization: 3D/EYE, Inc.  Ithaca, NY

As posted previously, the ray tracing roundtable meeting at SIGGRAPH will be
Thursday, 5:15-6:15 pm.  We now have a room location:  Lobby Room #14, which
is on (surprise) the lobby level, directly behind the Arie Crown Theatre.  For
a switch, there actually will be round tables in the room (or so they tell me).

In case you missed the original post:  the ray tracing roundtable meeting is a
chance for all interested parties to put names with faces and discuss ray
tracing related matters.  We go around the room, introduce ourselves, then
adjourn and blabber.

See you there,

Eric
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: EPS/PS Manipulator Available?
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:22:00 GMT
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

We're looking for a program that allows the importing and manipulating
of encapsulated postscript and postscript graphics.  We have several
folks who use MS Windows programs such as Excel who generate charts
and save them in EPS for importing into documents.  However, we would
like like to tweak them sometimes.

Thanks for any leads.

Terry Chan
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics,sci.image.processing,comp.ai.neural-nets
From: kaiser@heron.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: ALGORITHM NEEDED:  Palette Selection
Organization: European Technical Centre, Sophia-Antipolis (Valbonne)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:43:22 GMT


xv 2.21 is also built and ready to run for RISC ULTRIX 4.2 on Digital's
UNIX freeware CD, along with source code and a lot of GIF and JPEG images.
And Jef Poskanzer's PBMplus.  And ImageMagick.  And URT 3.0 and 3.1a.  And
portable jpeg V3.0.  And some other stuff for imaging and graphics.

___Pete

kaiser@heron.enet.dec.com
+33 92.95.62.97
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: m23141@mwunix.mitre.org (Patrick Jones)
Subject: raise window ?
Summary: how to raise motif window from shell
Keywords: motif raise
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:17:17 GMT

I would like to be able to raise a motif window using a command
from the shell (sh csh ksh).  Any ideas?? On the sun (openwindows) I
can send the correct keystrokes to the windows tty and have it 
come to the top.
Any similar (or dis-similar) way in motif ??

			Thanx,

			Patrick Jones
			plj@mitre.org
From: stephane@mais.hydro.qc.ca (Stephane Vachon)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ithaca software (product = hoops) phone# ?
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:49:04 GMT
Organization: Hydro-Quebec, Montreal, Canada

sbhatia@mary.fordham.edu (SABU) writes:

>Hi,

>     I hav just recently heard of a software product known as 
> Hoops, the vendor's name is ITHACA. Could anyone out there 
>give me the phone# or address of this vendor.

>thanks,

>regards,
>sabu

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Hi SABU...

I've been using HOOPS for the past three months and it's a great product
for graphical environment development.  Anyway the address and phone # is

ITHACA software  1001 Marina Village Parkway
                         Alameda, CA 94501
                         Phone: 510-523-5900
                         Fax:   510-523-2880

If you have questions about it, don't hesitate.

Stephane...bye.
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: dsgerson@athena.mit.edu (David S Gerson)
Subject: .PIX file format question
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:02:23 GMT

I need to find information about the .PIX graphics file format.  It is used by 
amateur astronomers in many of their CCD cameras.  I need to know about 
the image header and the footer (if one exists) and how the data is stored.

I found one reference that says that there is a seven byte header that 
containsinformation about the size of the image and its location in _memory_,
but this makes no sense to me.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Dave

gerson@ulysses.mit.edu
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Laboratory
Sea Grant College Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology






Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: rdb@ktibv.uucp (The Graphical Gnome)
Subject: Re: CONVERSION OF WORDPERFECT .WPG FILES TO BE USED IN WINDOWS
Organization: KTI BV
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:11:57 GMT

T.D.Sadlier@massey.ac.nz (T.D. Sadlier) writes:

>Can anyone help?  I'm looking for a way to convert WordPerfect and
>Drawperfect graphics (ie.  .wpg files) so I can import them into
>Windows and Pagemaker.  Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks

>Tanya Sadlier

How about Alchemy, PaintShop Pro. This are great programs. 
Your local BBS should have a test version.

The Graphical Gnome (rdb@ktibv)

Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: eln122b@fawlty6.eng.monash.edu.au (Ivan Chin)
Subject: 3d mesh plotting library
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:29:29 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for a public domain library/package for plotting 3d meshes and
contour plots, preferrably to run on X11 or IBM-PC. Any pointers would be
greatly appreciated.

Ivan...
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: dlreed@highlite.uucp (David L. Reed)
Subject: PICT format? HELP!
Keywords: PICT, C
Organization: Gotham Communications Research
Distribution: comp.graphics
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:16:51 GMT


   I need to open PICT files, process the image they contain, and
write a new PICT file.  I look at the stuff on PICT in Inside Macintosh
V p 80 ff and find it cryptic, perhaps because it's Pascal,
perhaps because it needs to "display" at the same time.  Can someone
out there give me a lead as to the format of a PICT file?  if the info
was slanted toward C that would be gravy . . Thanks in advance!
Alan McConnell  

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: dave@appi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele)
Subject: psychographics?
Organization: Institute of Industrial Science, University of tokyo.
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:08:23 GMT

Anybody here hear of the field "psychographics?"

(I already know what "psychophysics" is.)

-----
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University of Tokyo.				dave@windsor.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
From: sfullenkamp@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 256grey level mono using 24bit video
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:10:17 EST
Organization: USAF AL/CFH, WPAFB, Dayton, OH

I would like to be able to display a 256 grey level picture on a VGA monitor
and am willing to purchase a 24 bit video board to do so.  A number of 
questions come to mind.
1-Are there video cards on the market with software drivers available
to the end-user.  Specifically, I will be writing MS C code and would
like to have a linkable subroutine library that I can control the functions
of the video board.  One of the functions that I am looking for is the
ability to load 1 of the 3 eight bit deep color planes (RGB) then use
that image to drive a monochrome VGA monitor.
2-Assuming that #1 is possible, is it then possible to load totally 
different pictures into the three banks?
Thanks for the help
Steve Fullenkamp
From: et11ltab@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Alexander Bachmann)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Postscript output of phigs
Keywords: phigs, output, postscript
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:50:27 GMT

Hello all,
I want to create postscript files of phigs-graphics. Does anybody know
how to do this? Please reply via e-mail
Thanx in advance,
Alex
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