HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pfk@rz.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.multimedia,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: Re: Kodak Photo-CD software
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:14:56 GMT
Reply-To: pfk@rz.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm)
Organization: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany


In article <1992Dec10.134939.3004@andersen.co.uk>, aroby@andersen.co.uk (Tony Roby) writes:
|> oep%colargol.edb.tih.no (oep) writes:
|> 
|> >mist@source.nl said that the max. resolution of images om this format
|> >is 3000x2000 pixels in 24bit depth.
|> >I really hope that this is not true. I mean, this represents the resolution 
|> >that you can print on a 300 dpi sublimation printer today using a A4/Letter
|> >sized paper. What happens when the next generation of printers arrive, or
|> >when the A3-sized sublimation printers arrive (if they are not already here)
|> 
|> The format is 3072x2048 in 24 bits and is very impressive.  I saw a recent
|> demo where a picture of a small boy was displayed, his head filling the
|> picture.  You could zoom in to his eye and see, very clearly, the
|> reflection of the photographer in his eye !  Even at this sort of
|> magnification, I could not see any evidence of individual pixels in the
|> original image becoming visible.
|> 
Note, that the highest resolution is 6144x4096. Only the current software do not support this format.

Frank
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: lromero@nyx.cs.du.edu (lorance romero)
Subject: dolphin
Summary: need a pic/gif/?? of a dolphin
Keywords: dolphin
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:57:03 GMT


howdy from colorado some of us don't hate state.
I'm looking for a picture of a Dolphin.  Preferably shareware/freeware/
out of copyrite to use as a logo for a business.  thanks
From: prungta@.cse.utoledo.edu (pankaj rungta)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: contour data
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:31:44 GMT
Reply-To: prungta@.cse.utoledo.edu
Organization: The University of Toledo

Iam looking for contoured data preferebly of a irregular surface like human bone.
Is the data available in (x,y,z) format.Iam working on fitting a NURBS surface
on a contoured data of a surface.Any help in this field will be appreciable.

 Pankaj Rungta
 CAEDM center
 univ. of toledo,
 toledo,OH 43606
 email parungta@jupiter.cse.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
Subject: Re: G-I-F pronunciation
Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:55:44 GMT

In article <1gdsofINN4hs@agate.berkeley.edu> kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller) writes:
>A friend and I have a little wager, that I would like to get settled before
>the end of the semester.  How is G-I-F pronounced? Gif as in "Gift" without
>the "t" or "Jif" as in the peanut butter?

According to Compuserve (who originated the format) it's pronounced "jif", like
the peanut butter.


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From: jojo@fermina.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Johannes Schmitz-Lenders)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: HPGL->PostScript
Date: 12 Dec 92 14:24:59 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
Distribution: global
NNTP-Posting-Host: fermina.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Summary: Searching for converter
Keywords: PostScript, Converter, HPGL


Does anybody have got or know about a converter
(commercial or non-commercial) from HPGL to
PostScript?

Thank you in advance

Johannes Schmitz-Lenders

Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: spencer@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Stephen N. Spencer)
Subject: A SIGGRAPH Holiday Present To The Computer Graphics Community.
Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:19:19 GMT

       Announcing the ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project
		Stephen Spencer  "(biblio@siggraph.org)"

     A new resource for researchers is now available to the computer
     graphics community.  Over 15,000 unique bibliographic references from
     the computer graphics field have been compiled into a single database
     for use by students, researchers, and the computer community in
     general.

     The project started with the DEC online computer graphics bibliography,
     which covered the years 1976 through 1986, and added the contributed
     bibliographic databases of a number of individuals, expanding the years
     covered as well as the sources of information.

     This database includes references from conferences and workshops
     worldwide and from a variety of publications, from magazines and
     journals to books dating back as far as the late 19th century.  The
     majority of the major journals and conference proceedings between the
     mid-1970's and 1992 are listed here.

     The database is formatted in the BibTeX bibliography entry format, an
     easy-to-read and understand ASCII format.  It is organized into files by
     year (except for the entries prior to 1975, which are collected into one
     file by themselves).

     A set of tools for manipulating and searching the bibliography database
     is also available for downloading.

     The database is available for anonymous FTP from "siggraph.org"
     "(128.248.245.250)" in the "publications/bibliography" directory.
     Use "anonymous" as the username and your electronic mail address
     as the password to gain entry to the FTP area on this machine.
     Please download and examine the file "READ_ME" contained in the
     "publications/bibliography" directory for more specific information
     concerning the database.

     This project is an ongoing concern:  We plan to expand the bibliography,
     both keeping it up-to-date as well as filling in missing pieces,
     large or small, and polishing and refining the format of the existing
     database.  In addition, plans to provide interactive online searching of
     the database are underway.  Alternative distribution channels are also
     being considered.

     Volunteers are always welcome.  Contact "biblio@siggraph.org" for more
     information on what needs to be done.

     Questions, corrections, suggestions, and contributions of material to the
     database can be directed to:  "biblio@siggraph.org"  on the Internet.

Happy holidays!

-- 
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Organization: Middle East Technical University - Computer Center
Date: Wednesday, 16 Dec 1992 11:37:38 TUR
From: <E59387@TRMETU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: WANTED: Simulation of physical experiments.


    HI,

    I NEED SOURCE CODE OF SOME PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS SUCH AS MOMENTUM,

  PROJECTILE MOTION.IF YOU CAN POINT ME A SITE WHERE CAN I FIND SUCH

  PROGRAMS. I'LL BE VERY GLAD.

    OR CAN YOU HELP ME ABOUT HOW CAN I DO ANIMATION OR SIMULATION OF

  THESE MOTION SUCH AS PROJECTILE MOTION , COLLISION OF TWO PBJECTS

  IN MOMENTUM CALCULATIONS ON GRAPHICS.


  THANKS IN ADVANCE.


Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: TARGA files
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:57:20 GMT

colemanr@garnet.berkeley.edu () writes:

>I am trying to send "Targa" files to a Montage slide maker.  The docs say
>that it accepts Targa files but it chokes on the ones I make using 
>image converters like Graphic Workshop (a PC program).  It says 
>"Unsupported TARGA file type" and dies.  My question: are there
>different flavours of TARGA files?    

Try to save it as an uncompressed non-colormapped 24bit right
side up Targa.  This is the simplest targa format.  If Graphic
Workshop cannot export such a file, try loading the file into
piclab (a free utility) and saving it back out.

>  Any help would be appreciated.
>-- Ron Coleman

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: ddennis@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dave Dennis)
Subject: CGM2tif conversion shareware?
Summary: need a conversion program
Keywords: CGM TIF 
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 23:37:21 GMT

Does anyone know of a CGM to TIF conversion program in shareware? 

Dave 		(ddennis@nyx.cs.du.edu)

Xref: sparky comp.graphics:13075 comp.graphics.animation:1385
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation
Subject: Re: REALISTIC 3D STUDIO
From: PHUTTER@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu (Macbeth)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 14:39:48 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT USA

In article <BzH0nv.K13@ccu.umanitoba.ca> howe@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Howe) writes:
>Subject: REALISTIC 3D STUDIO
>From: howe@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Howe)
>Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:55:06 GMT

>        Thanks to everyone who contributed to this REALISTIC question.
>If you've been following the progression of this topic, it has taken off
>in many areas of discussion.
>        Now, the point was to try to find out what options I have for
>doing image processing on a home system for around $3500 - $5000 CANADIAN.
> Now for the $20,000 part... I was stating that I could not afford the
>$20,000 to purchase a system just for my home. 
>	
>        If anyone cares to comment further, here are some specs:

>        - I'm pretty much locked-into using an IBM compatible, due to
>        software purchased.
>	
>        - I only have a limited amount of money available,  but would like
>        to add on to the system (ie, single-frame transferring to  VTR).
>	
>        - I am looking in Gateway 2000, IPC (CDN company), Dell (dimension
>        line of PC's.
>

Just MHO, but if you are going to buy a PC, look for brands that are not 
that BIG in the market. Smaller enterprises offer the same quality and 
performance than do Dell & Gateway but at a much lower price.

>        - VESA looks promising, and the price isn't that much 
> higher.>	
>        - How big of a hard drive should I have (REALISTIC).
>

I would say roughly 500 MB - 1 GB, if you want to get into serious 3-D 
animation. 200 - 400 MB if you want to get into "somewhat" serious 3-D.	

>        - Stealh VRAM has been mentioned as being fast, but for windows, 
>        how will this help for image processing??
>

Stealth VRAM will accelerate CAD graphics but not rendering. For speed in 
Windows, look at the new boards coming out with Windows acceleration, 
higer res and more colors. If your main purpose will be image processing, 
any video board with 16.7 M colors will do (accelerated or not) while for 
CAD and 3-D rendering, you would more likely tend to the higher-end 
accelerated graphics engines with the TI 34020 or such. Some examples are 
Opta Mona Lisa, Hercules Color Station, NEC graphics engine, and maybe even 
the new ATI Ultra Pro Plus.

>        If anyone cares to respond with help, comments, hints, etc.
>        I would greatly appreciate any replies.

>        Thanks in Advance.

>        howe@ccu.umanitoba.ca
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From: glad@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Composite video from SVGA board.
Date: 14 Dec 92 01:04:33 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

> I've aquired 2 Phillips 20" mono monitors, originally used on
> a workstation (at 1280*1024 I think). I get the feeling that
> they're fixed frequency, but anyway...
> 
> These monitors have composite video inputs - is there a 'simple'
> way of rigging 'standard' SVGA output so that the monitors could
> display a picture or two ? I have in mind a few resistors, diodes
> etc.. 
> 
> Thanks
> Martin
> (mdda@dsl.eng.cam.ac.uk)

Martin,

PC Sources, December 1992, page 67 previews a VGA to composite video converter.
It is called The Presenter and The Presenter Plus.  The Presenter is about the 
size of a pocket modem and plugs directly into the PC's VGA port.  The Presenter
Plus has a slightly more stable image and allows simultaneous monitor and TV 
operation.  It has an S-Video output as well.  You can contact the manufacturer,

Consumer Technology Northwest
Beaverton, Oregon
800-356-3983 or 503-643-1662

for more information...Francis

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson)
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: polyray
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.14 $
Organization: Haveland-Robinson Associates
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:20:16 +0000


In article <3498@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> schmitt@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (M.J.M.Schmitt.) writes:

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

I recently put up version 1.4 to faramir.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
(134.106.1.9) in pub/dkbtrace/incoming/polyray
I expect that the directory will be moved during a sort out...

This is the only place on the net that I know where it is, as archie doesn't
know anything about it.

It is an excellent package, does anyone know if there is a more recent
version available?

Cheers
Andy.

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From: ez000345@othello.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: wpg to anything
Keywords: wpg, convert
Date: 18 Dec 92 07:23:42 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis


Hello:

I am wits end.  I am trying to batch convert a bunch of word perfect
.wpg clipart files to anything else (GIF, PCX, TIFF) but I can't find
anything to do it.  I've tried hijaak but it says "not WPG format" but
wordperfect and word for windows both insert them into files.

Can anyone lead me in the right direction?  I'll mail (uuencoded) a few
of these wpg cliparts to anyone interested.  Please..!

Thanks for your time!!

--Val Luck
valuck@ucdavis.edu



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From: shek@aic.hrl.hac.com (Eddie C. Shek)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: How to find minimal bounding circle of a polygon?
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:52:22 GMT

I have a set of polygons and would like to bound them by their
respective minimal bounding circles as the first step of
normalization.  And the minimal bounding circle is defined as
the smallest circle that covers the polygon.

Are there any algorithms that find the minimal bounding circle
of a 2-D polygon (or equivalently, a set of 2-D points)?

I'd appreciate any help on the problem.

---------------------------------------------------------------
Eddie C. Shek
Hughes Research Laboratories
shek@aic.hrl.hac.com
(310)317-5607
Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:20:32 -0500 
From: "Joseph C. Lappa" <jl8p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Raytracers and PVM


Hi,


   Does anyone have any raytracer working under pvm like rayshade, vort,
pov, etc ?  If you do, would you mind pointing me to where I can pick up
a copy?


Thanks,
Joe
From: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Polhemus Head Tracking / GL problem
Date: 13 Dec 92 02:42:03 GMT
Reply-To: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
Followup-To: comp.graphics
Organization: Boston University

In article <104769@bu.edu> kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki) writes:
>In article <1992Dec9.013147.2709@u.washington.edu> chuckb@stein.u.washington.edu (Charles Bass) writes:

>>"interesting" behaviour. You want to set the near and far planes
>>to be as close together as possible to maximize your resolution.

>Now, when using zbuffer(), I've been told
>that it's accuracy depends on the far plane's distance - anyone
>care to comment on this?

	Just me again. To clear up my above statement - you have to
set your far plane as FAR AWAY as possible (not close) to maximize 
the resolution of the zbuffer. At least that's what my graphics prof 
told the class :) This doesn't sit well with me, since one would
think that the viewing space will be normalized at some point any-
way, regardless of the distance of the far plane in world coordinates.


				keith

Newsgroups: comp.graphics,rec.games.programmer
From: greg@dent.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg)
Subject: Re: Algorithm for Bitmap rotation & scaling
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, U. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:16:24 GMT

In article <krisr.724726801@cue> krisr@cue.bc.ca (Kristof Roomp) writes:
>while dreaming my way through linear algebra, I suddenly realized that
>linear transformations could be quite handy in rotating, scaling, etc. of
>aps.

Good grief!  Why else would we teach the stuff to you?

If you saved a copy of the Electronic Arts job posting that said you
don't have to know any math to write good games, you can keep E.A.'s
address but you should erase the rest of the article.
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: kdeacon@nmsu.edu (DEACON)
Subject: Commanche Overkill
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: comp.graphics
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:56:33 GMT

Has anyone seen the graphics for this IBM game, does anyone know how
it was done?
Xref: sparky comp.graphics:12955 sci.image.processing:1411
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,sci.image.processing
Subject: Dual side scanners
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:51:27 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

Could anybody recommend a high performance scanner (maxi 10,000 pages/day)
which supports dual side scanning (recto verso) and is less expensive
than the Kodak one?

Your advice or your suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Thanks,  Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: mgklg@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Ketan L. Ghelani)
Subject: Ray Tracing
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:44:04 GMT

To whoever can help me!

I'll be doing my thesis on Ray Tracing ( More specifically Structured
Ray Refraction), so I would like to know ftp sites where I can find the
ray tracing packages.  First part of the project would be find a
suitable ray tracing environment.

Bye 
Ketan

Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: tafd9@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Michael Bassett)
Subject: ??? Image Processing Standards
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:59:06 GMT

**************************************************************
To:      Computer Graphics News Group

Subject: Image Processing Standards 

From: Mike Bassett , Research Officer at 

                     VLSI Computer Graphics Group
                     ENGG2 School of Engineering
                     University of Sussex       
                     FALMER
                     East Sussex
                     ENGLAND

      e-mail: tafd9@syma.sussex.ac.uk
      Tel:    0273 606755 ex 2617
      Fax:    0273 678399          
*************************************************************

	Please can anyone guide me towards some image processing
standards. I have vague references to the following:

		IPI (Image Processing Interchange)
		ANSI X3H3.8
 		XIE

	If someone has any clues as to where I can find
information on these or other relevant standards I would be very
greatful.

	Mike Bassett.
From: udptech@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Denis Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: AXUM Graphics Package
Date: 16 Dec 1992 09:49:24 +0800
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Could anyone please supply me with details on the author/publisher
of the "AXUM" graphics package ?

Regards,
Denis Brown

Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.multimedia,comp.sys.sun.wanted
From: danisch@ira.uka.de (Hadmut Danisch )
Subject: Re: Kodak Photo-CD software
Reply-To: danisch@ira.uka.de
Organization: Univ. Karlsruhe
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:15:49 GMT

pfk@rz.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm) writes:

>Note, that the highest resolution is 6144x4096. Only the current software do not support this format.

>Frank

This will be in ProPhotoCD. The highest resolution of the normal PhotoCD is 3072x2048 .

Hadmut
 
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: High Quality Color Printing...
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:48:23 GMT

In article <Bz2rEn.1FB@rahul.net> jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger) writes:
>F. Ken Musgrave (musgrave-forest@cs.yale.edu) wrote:
>
>:   Gist Inc. of New Haven, CT, has an Iris ink-jet printer that will go up 
>to 
>: 23.5" square.  They're at (203) 495-7500.
>
>   Linotext, in Palo Alto, CA has a STORK Digtal Printer that can print 
>34"x42".  Their number is (415) 325-6629.

The Stork printers, (which basically use the same ink-jet technology
as Iris), do not produce as high a quality output as the Iris.  The
Stork prints at 240 dpi to attempt to more accurately simulate what
will come off the press whereas the Iris prints at 300 dpi (and looks
much better than what comes off the press at anything less than 300
linescreen...).

>Jonathan Heiliger ........ Electric Power Research Institute
>Internet: -/- jonathan@rahul.net -/- jonathan@mecca.epri.com -/-
>Telephone <*> (415) 855-2888


andrew
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From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 24-bit display for DG Aviions?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 19:05:52 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone know of any way to display 24-bit images on a
DG Aviion? Anything out htere for DGs like the GL library?
thanks.
-- 
Ted....
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