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From: rimkus@netcom.com (Mike Rimkus)
Subject: book on 8514/a programming
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:11:35 GMT

I'm looking for a thorough book on programming for an 8514/a graphics
adapter interface. Suggestions?
Xref: sparky comp.graphics:13101 comp.os.msdos.programmer:11561 comp.msdos.programmer:109
From: tcobbs@zeus.calpoly.edu (Travis Cobbs)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: bitmap
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:05:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1992Dec12.143219.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> comptec91046@camins.camosun.bc.ca writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.051026.29524@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, slindsay@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve Lindsay) writes:
>> 
>> I am working with Borland C++ 3.1 and VGA trying to use the 
>> Graphics.h library.  When I change my setbkcolor to BLUE and
>> then change setcolor to BLACK (current drawing color) and try
>> to draw it is not in black it is in blue.  Or at least I think it is
>> blue because I cannot see the lines.  
>> 
>> What is the deal?  Does Graphics.h change the background color
>> by changing color number 0 (BLACK) to what ever color I tell it 
>> and then when I try to draw with number 0 (BLACK) it is not black
>> but the same as my background color.
>
>I'm pretty sure that 0 isn't Black but is transparent)  I think Black is 4 or
>something like that.
>
>Chris
>

Nope.  0 is whatever you tell it to be (setrgbpalette()).  I would assume that
setbkcolor() just changes the palette entries for color 0, causing the screen
background, which is in color 0, to become the specified color.  ie:
setbkcolor(BLUE) is equivilant to:  setrgbpalette(0,0,0,31).  Or whatever.
I'm not sure what the RGB values are for BLUE, but that's pretty close.  So
yes, the original poster was pretty much correct.
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: swkmorri@nuscc.nus.sg (Perry Morrison (Dr))
Subject: What is .mpg format?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:51:20 GMT

I have an animation file (i think) with a .mpg extension? Any ideas what 
this format is and how to view?

thanks for any help offered

perry morrison
From: watson@madvax.uwa.oz.au (David Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: icosahedron and geodesics
Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:04:56 GMT
Organization: Maths Dept UWA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: xanthorrhoea.maths.uwa.oz.au

In article <C01GHy.EG5@csn.org>, c4craig@teal.csn.org (Craig Anderson) writes

|> 1) What are the x,y,z coordinates for an icosahedron?

For an icosahedron centered at (0,0,0) you can use appropriate permutations
of the set {0, 1, .5+.5*5^.5}.  Each set of four vertices which lie in
a plane containing two Cartesian axes are the vertices of a golden rectangle.

-- 
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Department of Mathematics            
The University of Western Australia               Tel: (61 9) 380 3359
Nedlands, WA 6009  Australia.                     FAX: (61 9) 380 1028
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.os.unix,comp.mac,comp.os.aux
From: pbrowne@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Pat Browne)
Subject: XWindows dump to MAC converter
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:20:05 GMT

Greetings

We require  a procedure (or program ) that will allow us to convert a file
produced by an X-Window "xwd" command (on an HP-9000) platform to "pict"
format such that it can be used by any Macintosh program. This is being used
to prepare a user manual which requries snapshots of the various windows used
by the application.
Any code or information would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

V. Adomaitis/P. Browne

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.lang.postscript
From: morley@suncad.camosun.bc.ca (Mark Morley)
Subject: Re: Anyone got RLE code in C?
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:26:41 GMT

sgoldste@phakt.usc.edu (Fogbound Child) writes:
: Hi there!
: 
: I'm looking for some C code to do the RLE encoding used by Postscript[tm]
: for image compression.
: 
: If it's out there and available, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll write it
: and make it available sometime in January.
: 
: Thanks!
: ___Samuel___
: -- 
: _________Pratice Safe .Signature! Prevent Dangerous Signature Virii!_______
: Guildenstern: Our names shouted in a certain dawn ... a message ... a
:               summons ... There must have been a moment, at the beginning,
:               where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Hmmm...  Just the other day I wrote a set of C routines for doing RLE
compression/decompression.  I'm not sure if the routines are compatible
with Postscript RLE or not, but you're welcome to them (as is anyone else
who cares to ask).  The routines are less than a week old, but I've
successfully compressed and decompressed all sorts of files, so I'm
satisfied that they work.  To show how the routines compress the data,
I'll describe how the decompression takes place...

1) Read a byte.  If the byte is a null (0) then we have reached the end of
   the compressed information - STOP.
2) Let N = the value of the lower 7 bits of the byte.  Let F be either 1
   or 0, the setting of the high bit.
3) If F == 1 then read the next byte and repeat it N+1 times.
   If F == 0 then read the next N bytes literally.
4) Goto step 1

I use this method along with a huffman method in a new image format I've
developed for a project I'm working on.  If there's enough interest I'll
place it at an FTP site somewhere (probably wuarchive).

MARK

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: lkay@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (leonard kay)
Subject: Help! HPGL docs!
Organization: Northeastern University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:29:38 GMT

Greetings... please be kind, but I need a relatively simple 
question answered and this seemed the most apporpriate newsgroup...

I'm trying to find a good reference/textbook type documentation for
HP Graphics Language (a la HP7475 plotters). The manual which came with
my plotter stinks. I seem to be missing basic stuff like parameter
lists and what various commands do.

ANY help appreciated! You may E-mail to the address above.

Thanks, Len


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.lang.postscript,alt.graphics.pixutils
From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: EPSF or MacIntosh Pict  ->  fig Converter
Followup-To: comp.graphics,comp.lang.postscript,alt.graphics.pixutils
Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:17:39 GMT

Peter Harris (pharris@ucscm.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: Well, since EPSF is (supposed to be) just a
: PostScript file with an accompanying PICT for
: viewing, [ ... ]

***** Culture Gap Alert! *****
While the above statement is Gospel to a Macophile (quite literally -- it's
straight out of the "Macintosh Bible" -- I can't cite chapter and verse
offhand), it's regarded as quaint and parochial in the Terra Incognita
outside the Mac Universe.  See the Adobe PostScript Language Reference
Manual (Red Book) (either edition) for the more widely accepted definition.
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: adh@alvin.ach.uams.edu (Alvis Harding Jr.)
Subject: Need info. on legal status of releasing MR and CT data to public
Reply-To: adh@george.ach.uams.edu
Organization: Arkansas Children's Hospital, Cardiac Imaging
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:08:36 GMT

Hello all.

Apologies if this is a slightly inappropriate newsgroup for this posting.   We
do not receive misc.legal at our NNTP site.

I'm about to release a beta version of some medical imaging software I've
been working on for a Sun platform.  It would be nice if I could also release
some MR and CT data so that users could immediatly start using it.  What
I'm wondering about is the legal status of releasing MR and CT data.  With
volumetric data, 3D renderings can be made of the person and that person 
can be recognized (if it is of the head).  What are the legal implications of this?  
Do I need the patient's consent to do this?  Do I need to tell the Radiology
department to inform the patients that their data could be used for
research purposes (and hence released)?  In some of the movies I would 
like to release, the skin has either been clipped away or is not displayed
at all (rendering the person to be unrecognizable).  Would I have to 
modify the "raw" MR and CT data to be unrecognizable in this fashion
as well?  Any remarks on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

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Cardiac Imaging
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Little Rock, AR  72202                                   Except after C,
(501) 320-3600                                           Unless your 'weird'"
From: joe@proto.com (Joe Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: graphics packages/dos
Date: 31 Dec 92 00:00:03 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: FlashTek, Inc.

"glenn stewart" <glenn.stewart@channel1.com> writes:

>We are in the process of creating mapping application at work running
>under DOS.  We are evaluating graphic's packages which run DOS.
>Two that we are looking at closely are

>            1.  METAwindow from METAGRAPHICS
>            2.  GX Graphics from Genus

>If anyone has used these or other products and can suggest or recommend
>any 1 package over another it would be appreciated.

Flash Graphics from FlashTek, Inc. includes support for two different 16-bit
DOS extenders and two different 32-bit extenders for use with four different
C/C++ compilers.  I also offers support for a variety of graphics adapters
from CGA and Hercules monochrome up to Super VGA, 8514/A, and TIGA (some
restrictions for DOS extenders).  Flash Graphics was shipped with the Zortech
compiler from 1988 until about a year ago as the standard graphics package 
and has good third party support because of this.

There are no royalties associated with Flash Graphics.

You can contact FlashTek, Inc. as follows:

FlashTek, Inc.                  FlashTek, Ltd.
121 Sweet Ave                   Partnership House
Moscow, Idaho 83843             Grantham, Lincs
U.S.A.                          NG31 9ST  England

FAX:    208-882-7275            FAX:   +44-476-61382
Voice:  208-882-6893            Voice: +44-476-74108
Orders: 800-397-7310
Email:  flashtek@proto.com      Email: flashtek@cix.compulink.co.uk
CIS:    71332,203               CIS: 100042,1673
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: Realistic 3D Studio usage
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:12:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.062316.23815@midway.uchicago.edu> chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:
>
>    As a paint program, again IMO, *nothing* approaches Fractal Design
>Painter, not Dpaint, Lumena, Oasis, Digital Arts Paint or anything else
>I have used on Amiga, Mac, PC or SGI. Several years ago I defined my
>dream "Paint System." FDP is the closest I have seen to my dream.. 
>

Can you list all the feature about Fractal Design Painter? I just want
to know how can it make us like a dream tool. As you mentioned above.

Did you ever try brilliance on Amiga? 
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: M16302@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Re: EPSF on MAC to EPSI on SUN
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:57:54 GMT

Does anybody out there know of a utility for this conversion? I am trying to
get the image to Asterisk OA package but would settle to get it to Framemaker.
ROBERT B. SHAIN                              EMAIL: RSHAIN @MITRE.ORG
THE MITRE CORPORATION                        VOICE: (703)883-5592
CENTER FOR INTELLIGENCE & SPECIAL PROGRAMS   FAX: (703)883-6991
MAILSTOP W955
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: PCX Source including 24-bit, VGA...
From: woodgate@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Dr S.Woodgate)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:40:34 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Hi there,
This question comes up forever. And before you flame me
I have found the document at zamenhof.rice.edu (pcx.doc,pcx2.doc)
but neither mentions how to load 24-bit PCX files!
Further, why reinvent the wheel unless I need to:
So far I have found 2 PCX image processors at SIMTEL
1. In turbo pascal (64K file size limit)
2. In C (no support for VGA)
neither support 24-bit
So if someone has such a unit, library,.... I could link into
Borland Pascal 7.0 that can do files > 64K, VGA, and 24-bit this
would be appreciated (as in friend for life.....)
Alternatively any info on 24-bit PCX would be gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance,
  Dr.S.Woodgate
  Auckland University, New Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: bstevens@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bob Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Converting CMYK to RGB - Help Me!
Date: 1 Jan 1993 14:37:23 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

Foley and Van Dam?  Sheesh!  Have the darned thing over on my shelf.  I'm
suffering from lazy syndrome this week.  Must be.

Thanks!

Bob

Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: taudas@ais.org (Tony Audas)
Subject: Re: Faster ray intersector for POV
Organization: UMCC
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:25:46 GMT

raw2pov is on ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: usgdsmx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Della)
Subject: Image to ASCII Picture??
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:14:22 GMT


Does anyone know how to convert an image (GIF/TIFF)
to an ASCII picture..??
IE, like #,!. symbols....(that form the picture??)
MSDOS/MAC/UNIX (SGI) Platforms  

Does XV do this??
HELP!

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation
From: yasin@laser.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yasin)
Subject: Looking for public domain SW to display gif on IBM-AT
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:55:05 GMT
Keywords: IBM-AT, VGA, GIF

Hello all,

I am looking for programs which will display atleast gif files on an
IBM-AT machine (286 and +), having a VGA card with color display.
The reason I am not specifying my PC configuration is because I would
like the SW to get configured automatically or through the user specification.

This is the first time I am addressing this group, so incase this
is a faq, then please ignore and if possible mail me faq list or 
please mail me the ftp source for the faq file.

Thanks in advance for your time and effort.

Regards,

Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation,comp.multimedia
From: senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Subject: Re: Ultimate MM Setup
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:25:00 GMT

In article <Bzp8ys.C12@rahul.net> jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger) writes:
>   The basics of this are:  If you had say a maximum expenditure of $100,000 
>and you needed to invest in both a Macintosh and PC/DOS/Windows system, how 
>would you do it?  I'm just looking for some new ideas, and confirmation of my 
>own.
>   Things like a Dell system, Northgate, Compaq, Micronics, NEC monitors, 
>RasterOps monitors, 3D Studio, Ray Dream Designer, Macromind Action, 
>Macromind Director...what, what?!
> 
>-- 
>Jonathan Heiliger ........ Electric Power Research Institute
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jonathan,

EPRI is rich enough for you to really get the ULTIMATE multimedia machine.
Forget DOS-based and MAC equipment. I have looked at them all -- they're
all the pits. 

Call 1-800-7441  (1-800-SGI1) for Silicon Graphics direct marketing.
For the price of DELL or MAC you can get an SGI Indigo that is MANY
times better! Just have a local SGI salesdroid drop one off at your
place for a while. You will never be satisfied with anything else.
Ask to be "non-disclosed" about their new products ;-)  SGI has
already introduced their R4400 MIPS chips -- makes Intel's Pentium
look rather enemic -- not to mention Motorola's 68060 chip which is
still a year away.

Trust me :-)


-- 
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(senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
Division of Life Sciences    | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
UT San Antonio               |             Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: sychen@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Shi Y Chen)
Subject: gray scale formula
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 21:58:26 GMT

Is this a faq? Could someone mail me a simple formula for gray-scaling.
Thanks.
sychen@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: mwooten@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: GIF -->Polaroid Palette?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:29:16 GMT

Does anyone have a suggestion on where I can get a simple program with a
driver for a Polaroid Palette Plus to allow easy printing of GIF files?

I have looked through the SIMTEL selection but I did not see any thing
for this purpose.

Thanks,
Mike


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From: DrAllosaurus@cup.portal.com (Samuel DrAllosaurs Crider)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: TDI Objects???
Date: Fri,  1 Jan 93 11:21:25 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

This topic is a bit beyond my sphere of knowledge but I am asking in
care of the students in our SGI 3D animation class...
Are there any ftp sites or other sources for objects in TDI format?
Or for that matter utilities to change to TDI?
Any info would be appreciated and I'll relay it to the appropriate
folks. E-mailed responses would be nice.

Many Thanks!

Samuel Crider
Computer Graphics Lab Coordinator
Columbia College Chicago
DrAllosaurus@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: rks9954@usl.edu (Srinivasa Rao K)
Subject: Stuck with PCX file ... need HELP ..
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:01:10 GMT


      Can any body Please give advice regarding the problem ...
	
	    I am trying to read and display PCX file.
	    The Header is having the following data
	    x1 = 0; y1 = 0; x2 = 9263; y2=12410 ;
	    Xresolution = 400; Yresolution= 400;
	    Number of planes =1;  Bits Per Pixel = 1;Version =5;
	    The file size is 10Meg.
	    In the books I read the x2 and y2 are given upto maximum of 640.
	    When i ran the same program on other pcx files of size approx 155k
	    x2 and y2 are around 455 and 350 with resolution 150.
	    I have swapped the bytes of x and y values, else x and y values are        above 15000.
       The Image size approximately same as x2/xresolution  x  y2/yresolution.
	  How Should i display this on to my screen size of 1200 x 1000 pixels
	  with DATA GENERAL machine ...
	  I would appreciate your guidance.....
	  Thankyou all .....
From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Macintosh Draw Programs With Editable Coordinates?
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 01:52:02 GMT

   Are there any not-too-expensive drawing programs for the Macintosh
that permit direct numerical editing of points or coordinates (i.e.,
line vertices), and possibly other parameters, as _text_ (i.e., as
numbers in a table or array)?  -- and possibly the import of number
pairs in tabular form and their conversion to line segments or
polynomial objects?

   [Maybe even the ability to edit numerically the center point,
radius, and arc limits of a circular arc?]

   I know that MacDraw II can _measure_ or display lengths or
coordinate values; but I'm not aware of any program like MacDraw or
SuperPaint that permits one to edit such values numerically.

   siegman@sierra.stanford.edu


From: Renee.Teunissen@freudsys.iaf.nl (Renee Teunissen)
Sender: Usenet@freudsys.iaf.nl
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Camera View Code Wanted.
Date: 26 Dec 92  13:32:34 EST

Hi Gary, on 30 Nov 92 (about 11:10:47) yo wrote to All :

 G> I am looking round for some code in "C" if possible that will
 G> allow me to construct a camera view of a raytraced scene. Ie

why don;t you take a look at PoV, DKB or any other public domain raytracer. those packages i mentioned before have released their c code..


Greetzzz,
 _
|_)
|\_enee.     [internet: renee@freudsys.iaf.nl]

 * Origin: freudsys.iaf.nl, a prive uucp gate at (27:4331/107.19)
From: john@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Polygon/polygon operations
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:09:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Has anyone public-domain C code for generalised polygon/polygon
operations (union, intersection, clipping?) Perhaps of the Weiler
algorithm described by Foley and van Dam?

I've checked the FAQ, most of the general texts to which it refers,
pub/Graphics/GraphicsGems at princeton.edu, and the archives of
comp.graphics stuff at mcsun.eu.net and hanauma.stanford.edu, with
no success.

John A. Murdie
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: c4craig@teal.csn.org (Craig Anderson)
Subject: icosahedron and geodesics
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:49:09 GMT


I would like to play around with software for displaying
geodesic structures.

1) What are the x,y,z coordinates for an icosahedron?
2) Is there any public software that I should look at?

Thanks,

Craig H. Anderson
C4 Network, Inc.
518 17th Street, Suite 1400
Denver, CO 80202
    (303) 825-8183
FAX (303) 893-6510
c4craig@csn.org