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From: akin@tuolumne.asd.sgi.com (Allen Akin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics Programs for Multi-Media
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:56:04 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: tuolumne.asd.sgi.com


MacroMind Three-D is one such package.  It meets all the requirements
you mentioned.  If you look into it, be sure to evaluate version 1.2
or later.

One caveat:  Three-D is an animation package designed to be used as
part of a suite of production software, so its modeling capabilities
are limited.  It can generate block text from TrueType fonts, it has a
selection of simple solids, and it can import 3D objects from a variety
of modelers.

Allen
From: rsc@altair.csustan.edu (Steve Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: comp.edu
Summary: Request for computer graphics course projects
Date: 2 Jan 93 07:20:49 GMT
Organization: CSU Stanislaus


                 Computer Graphics Projects Wanted

One of the most important parts of a Computer Graphics course is the set 
of projects the students work on; these define the particular skills the 
students will pick up in the course and the areas the students will learn 
the best.  I am assembling a set of project statements for the first and 
second Computer Graphics courses in a Computer Science program, and 
invite anyone teaching such a course to send me statements of any 
projects they use and find particularly good.  If possible, I would like 
to see samples of student output and listings of student code that go 
along with each project, and I would appreciate getting project 
statements electronically (e-mail is best).  I have not determined just 
what to do with projects that are submitted, but any publication from 
this will give full credit to the persons who send in statements.  Please 
send your projects to:

        Steve Cunningham
        Computer Science Department
        California State University Stanislaus
        Turlock, CA  95380
        209-667-3176
        209-667-3333 fax
        rsc@altair.csustan.edu

Thank you very much for your contributions.
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:23:12 MST
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: curtisn@SAS (Curtis Nelson)
Subject: VGA Editor
Organization: BYU

Hi all!
I'm searching for a shareware VGA graphics editor, one that allows me to 
edit in 256 colors.  If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it!

Happy Hollidays!
Curtis
curtisn@sasb.byu.edu
From: harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (Behse))
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: VESA VL-BUS SPEC
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:20:33 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de

In <Bzqqq9.391@newsserver.technet.sg> pdsrd@solomon.technet.sg (Wong Kok San) writes:

>Anyone knows where can I get a copy of VESA VL-BUS Specifications ?


Hi,
well I would also like to get the new VESA Local Bus specification,
with all the timing diagrams and electrical specifications...

Please email me, when some kind sole out there knows, where I can buy it,
or if there is any file available via FTP.

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards, Stefan Hartmann,c/o Gatz & Hartmann
email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de
From: Tim_-_Leonard@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Wavefront .obj colors?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 08:45:25 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

Does anyone know how color and otherobject attributes are handled in
Wavefront .obj files?  I have the .obj spec and there's no mention of where
you'd specify an object's color or if it uses a particular texture map.  I'm
also trying to get a file spec on how WaveFront's texture maps are saved. Any
help or leads would be appreciated.. Thanks.
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From: sgoldste@phakt.usc.edu (Fogbound Child)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Anyone got RLE code in C?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:12:19 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

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___
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From: agscrib@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur Scribner)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: GIF - UNIX - PC ?
Date: 29 Dec 92 04:57:27 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

I need a little help? I have just received a couple of
uuencoded GIF files. I have uudecoded them and they are
now .gif files. My question is this. Since I am on a 
SUN SPARC, how can I display them on my SUN? If I can't,
then what do I need to do to transfer them to my PC
where I do have a GIF displayer?

Also, what is a JPEG 
and how does it differ from GIF?

Arthur
agscrib@afterlife.ncsc.mil


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From: harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (Behse))
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: SEARCH: 3D-Models for Autodesk 3D-Studio (*.3Ds)
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:14:29 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de
Keywords: 3D-Studio

In <ace.725027750@gurdilo> ace@gurdilo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Stolz) writes:

>I work for a company that publishes books about computer software.
>So I came across the excellent 3D Studio by Autodesk.

>Every now and then, when I have some time off during my job-hours,
>I like to make some nice rendered animations just for fun.

>For that reason I'm looking for some 3DS models that I can use for my
>demos. Someone told me that there is a 3DS-archive out there on FTP, but 
>he couldn"t give me the address and archie doesn"t report any address either.

>Is anyone out there who knows an FTP-site which has 3DS models and who is
>willing to give it to me?

>I would prefer models which are given to the public domain, because I do not
>want to interfere any copyright-law by using these models.

>If you have any information on this subject, you can post it to comp.graphics
>or you can email me.

>Thanks in advance!!

>ace@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de


I also would like to know of this FTP site...

Please add me to your mailing list.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards, Stefan Hartmann,c/o Gatz & Hartmann
email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de


Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: sz7116084@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
Subject: Source code for loading GIF files
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 13:55:03 GMT

Is there anybody out there who know of any C function for loading in a gif
files on a IBM PC? 
If you know, please e-mail to me. My internet address is
SZ7116084@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
From: matthias@nimbus.larc.nasa.gov (Larry Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Using Morphing for Interpolating Cloud Systems
Date: 23 Dec 1992 18:56:33 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nimbus.larc.nasa.gov
Keywords: morphing image processing interpolation


Good Day!

	I am currently engaged in research for the analysis
of cloud systems from NASA satellite data. To show an animation
of the clouds as they move across the planet I need to interpolate
each system in time and space.  This is due to the fact that our
satellite is only overhead every so often.
	I thought it would be useful to apply morphing techniques
to the cloud systems so that the transition would be smooth and
appealing. I currently need information on morphing software for
a Sun Sparcstation or articles on how to morph in a simple manner
(If I have to create it myself I want to understand it).
	The software could also be for Sgi workstations since they
are available on the center.

	Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: jacobs@erc.cat.syr.edu (David Quinn-Jacobs)
Subject: What is NTIF?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 16:43:38 EST

Is anyone familiar with NTIF as a graphics file format?  Please respond via
my email address, since I cannot access news very often.  Thanks in advance!

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: large sun raster files
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:56:07 GMT

>bahi@inf.ethz.ch (Hicham Bahi) writes:
>
>>I have the following problem:
>
>>I am working with huge sunraster files (27152x37937 pixels)
>>which are run_length encoded. Since I don't have enough memory
>>to load the whole picture, I have to cut it into smaller pieces.
>
>>Because of the run-length encoding, I have to read all the bytes
>>of the file to find the starting position of the sub-image. For
>>huge files, this means hours of computing.
>
>>Does anybody know a better way to cut run-length encoded rasterfiles?

Change the data organization, I suggest to "tiling".  Uncompress the
image.  Divide into tiles say 64 by 64.  You may want to make the tile
size equivalent ot a page of memory if you are storing the image in
virtual memory, or a disk block if on disk.  You may want to recompress
each tile.  As you pan through subimages, you only need to add tiles
to the appropriate edge.
From: lau@rose.brandeis.edu (frankie t. k. lau)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: WANTED: src for 2D graphics, scientific-oriented.(PC or not)
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:07:38 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University

hi all,

	I have recently started to look for C sources
related to 2D graphics, eg related to graph drawing,
scattered plot, use of control buttons, dialog boxes,
slide-bar etc.
	My target is to build a more personal armament of
graghics toolkit so they can be used with ease.   For building
in near future, some scientific easy-to-use simulation,
graphing, etc programs.

	Initially I hope the source can be very portable, 
eg the level of portability that's offered by gnuplot.
But as ibm-pc is one of the platforms that I want my programs to
run, this ibm-pc<=>unix cross platform requirement may be too
much to ask for.

	I have tried turbo c++, doing graphics with bgi is reasonably
easy, do you have any suggestions as whether I can stick to 
turbo-c's bgi libraries?  And for rather static 2D graphs, is the
speed that's offered by bgi is sufficient?

Any pointer to free-ware, share-ware sources will be appreciated.
Or any good books with source-disk.  More good turbo-c graphic src.

Thanks in advance. (have read faq, those nice books have read)

-Frankie
lau@tammy.harvard.edu
From: morley@suncad.camosun.bc.ca (Mark Morley)
Subject: Touch Screens
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:59:59 GMT

About a year ago I saw someone demonstrate a touch screen that simply
fitted over a regular 14" VGA monitor.  It converted the "touches" into
mouse signals.  In other words, once you have written software to work
with a Microsoft mouse you don't have to change anything to make it work
with this touch screen.  Did that make sense?  Anyway, I can't remember
who made it or how much it cost, etc.  If anyone out there has any info on
this or similar products, I'd be most interested in getting it.  Also, if
you have ideas for other touch screens or alternatives I'd like to hear them.


Thanks,
MARK

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 Camosun College - Interurban Campus     TEL: (604) 370-4601
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 24bit true color images
From: news@grace.cri.nz
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:43:17 GMT
Organization: Gracefield Research Centre

Does anyone have any 24bit true color images (16.7 million colors)?
all the ftp sites seem to only have 256 color images!

If you've got one, care to anon ftp it to 131.203.14.199

TIA :-)

PS don't forget to transmit it in BINARY!
From: alberto.herranz@fibernet.wa.com (Alberto Herranz) 
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: RE: WANTED: Source for GI
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:38:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: FiberNet. Barcelona Spain (34 3 464 4415)  (34 3 688 0823)
Reply-To: alberto.herranz@fibernet.wa.com (Alberto Herranz) 

From: ALBERTO HERRANZ
To:   EARL BOEBERT
Subj: RE: WANTED: Source for GIF Decompress Subsystem

EB|Could some kind soul point me to a site which would have source code
  |for the exact LZW decompressor used to decompress GIF files prior to
  |decoding?  I need the code for a special-purpose GIF decoder.  Many
  |thanks.

   I have exactly what you want. I have some documents about the 87a and
   89a versions of the GIF encoding/decoding system and i've developed a
   GIF viewer for the PC.

   If you are interested in the source code (this is, the decoder) you
   can contact with me at fibernet.wa.com. I must talk to my sysop to
   see if the FTP system is ok and if so i'll leave you the package
   there.

   Please reply to this message to test the recent installed mail
   system.

   thanks,
        alberto.herranz@fibernet.wa.com
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: crod@cc.curtin.edu.au (Scott Kevill)
Subject: REQUEST: StarTrek 3D Objects and others to avalon
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:43:42 GMT

Hello,

This is a call those who were involved in a discussion a while back
about startrek 3D objects (klingons, enterprise, etc.) and where to
put them and in what format.

Could these people please place these objects in the format of their
convenience at the ftp site : avalon.chinalake.navy.mil in the
pub/incoming directory. If you didn't know, avalon seems to be the
definitive 3D object archive site now with files in many formats
(currently Movie BYU, DKB trace, AutoCad DXF, Haines' NFF, nurbs,
Wavefront OBJ, OFF, POV-ray, Imagine TDDD and some others).

If anyone has any other objects (in the public domain) that they
feel others could benefit from please place them here as well.
There is also a directory for format converters, so these would
be also valued.

Unfortunately I lost the original articles, so I can't contact the
authors directly so if anyone knows the addresses of the others
or still has the articles, could they please forward this message
on to them.

Thanks in advance,

Scott

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: R5321GAB@vm.univie.ac.at
Subject: Re: Realistic 3D Studio usage
Organization: University of Vienna
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:25:25 GMT

I think that the software for SGI is out of the price range for most
people interested in setting up home studios. I work with Softimage
and Wavefront, both go for about $50,000. This is more than the system
price. Softimage is an incredible program but a tad expensive. How
about an Amiga 4000? I have heard that they have finally fixed that
damn monitor flicker at 24 bits. Imagine is also supposed to be fairly
nice. I have friends making broadcast (ie. Universe TV show) quality
animations with it.

Patrick Maun
R5321GAB$AWIUNI11.BITNET



Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
From: lnspet@grant.nia.nih.gov (Jim Haxby)
Subject: explorer windows
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:27:14 GMT

 I hear that the explorer windows can be located at certain spots
 by changing the .Xdefault file (a guy from ucla).  Can I have
 more information about that? Like a copy of the .Xdefault file
 would be great.
 I also have the problem that the module name of the module librarian
 is not fully displayed.  Any ways to solve the problem?

 You help will be greatly appreciated.

Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
From: srfergu@rufus.erenj.com (Scott Ferguson)
Subject: Re: File Formats
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:13:05 GMT

In article <8472@charon.cwi.nl>, guest@cwi.nl (Guest Account) writes:
|> 
|> There is also a module on the ftp site which can import various
|> foreign images formats. Quoted from the documentation of
|> ImportImage :
|> 

I've tried this module with GIF's, AVS .x images, and Sun RAS images.
I've found that it seems to miss the colormap on the pseudocolor image
files like GIF's and RAS's, but obviously it can't miss when the input
file is a 24-bit image. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I using the
module incorrectly? Is there an easy fix? 

I've tried re-making the module since it is provided with source, but it
doesn't come with two needed include files, im.h and sdsc.h

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
From: leep@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
Subject: Re: IsosurfLat2 Limitations?
Date: 24 Dec 92 16:11:37 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <1992Dec24.004917.1397@odin.corp.sgi.com>, ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) writes:
> In article <1992Dec23.011833.10963@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, leep@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
> |> 
> |> IsosurfaceLat and IsosurfaceLat2 both crash
> |> on large data sets.  The size is not
> > ...
> |> Peter Lee
> 
> Something to check for - does your arenasize exceed the available disk space
> on the disk specified by tempdir (default is /usr/tmp).  The shared memory
> arena used by explorer is mapped to a file under the tempdir directory.
> This mapped file acts as the VM swapfile for the arena (not your swap
> partition).
> 
> The mapped arena file does not start out attempting to use all of the
> disk space specified by arenasize.  As memory is needed, the arena file
> will grow.  If it grows past the available memory, weird execution
> behavior will occur and no errors that the arena has grown larger than
> the available disk space will be displayed.  I've encountered the kind of
> weird behavior like you are seeing in the circumstances that I had specified
> an arena larger than the disk space that I had.   I don't know if this is
> the problem that you are encountering.
> 
> 						--- Dave


Thanks, this was the problem.   

However, on the machine I was using most of the disk is full
so I set the tempdir to a NSF mounted disk.  When I did this
none of my datascribe modules would work unless tempdir was
on a local disk.   Any ideas on what is wrong?  

cheers,
peter lee
From: guest@cwi.nl (Guest Account)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
Subject: Re: explorer windows
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:44:54 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam


   > I hear that the explorer windows can be located at certain spots
   > by changing the .Xdefault file (a guy from ucla).  Can I have
   > more information about that? Like a copy of the .Xdefault file
   > would be great.

I'm not sure if I know what you mean by "the explorer windows", but the
display independent resources can be found in
        /usr/explorer/lib/X11/app-defaults
while the display dependent resources are in
        /usr/explorer/lib/X11/app-defaults/sgi-color*

Search for Geometry resources in the Explorer resource file.

Also (although I wouldn't recommend it), you can do things like :
        Render*Geometry:        350x350-10-10
with the obvious meanings. All control panels can be placed this way.

   > I also have the problem that the module name of the module librarian
   > is not fully displayed.  Any ways to solve the problem?

Perhaps your system admin hasn't installed Explorer correctly, so that
the necessary fonts are not found. Check to see if the link from
        /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/sgi-color* to
                        /usr/explorer/lib/X11/app-defaults/sgi-color*

exists. If not, then that is probably the cause of your problem.



Cheers,
-- Robert van Liere
From: demillo@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Robert DeMillo )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
Subject: Re: explorer windows
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:34:03 GMT
Organization: M.I.T. Lincoln Lab: Fine Food and Coffee

In article <8471@charon.cwi.nl> guest@cwi.nl (Guest Account) writes:

>>> I hear that the explorer windows can be located at certain spots
>>> by changing the .Xdefault file (a guy from ucla).  Can I have
>>> more information about that? Like a copy of the .Xdefault file
>>> would be great.

>I'm not sure if I know what you mean by "the explorer windows", but the
>display independent resources can be found in
>	/usr/explorer/lib/X11/app-defaults
>while the display dependent resources are in
>	/usr/explorer/lib/X11/app-defaults/sgi-color*

Kindof amusing that the SGI folks aren't answering this question
quite right...here's what someone at our site does (thanks Cindy!), 
and it works pretty well...

In the .XDefaults file, place the following stuff. You can 
add whatever you feel like, using the standard X Windows attributes
conventions....

!! Explorer
mapEditor*geometry:	1040x860+230+150
mapEditor*background:	cadet blue
Librarian*geometry:	200x860+0+150
Librarian*background:	cadet blue
gui*geometry:		140x25+235+0
render*geometry:	300x330+500+400

!! SGI gr_osview
gr_osview*geometry:	280x200+954+7


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
From: lnspet@grant.nia.nih.gov (Jim Haxby)
Subject: File Formats
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:36:25 GMT

Do anyone happen to know any computer journals or textbooks which
talks about different image file formats?
I am working on a project to display c_scan and p_scan images using
SGI Explorer.  The images files are already in PV_WAVE (Precision 
Visuals), MAT_LAB, Analyze (Biomedical Imaging Resource) formats.
I think thay are raster images and TIFF images.  Are there any ways
to convert these images files to RGB format? (existing tools or any
programming)
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