HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: G.Coulter@uk.ac.daresbury (G. Coulter)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Topological Surface data
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:10:49 GMT
Reply-To: G.Coulter@uk.ac.daresbury
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

Hi

I am looking for a repository or FTP site where
I can obtain same surface data of say the earth
or one of the other planets in our solar system
to use as a landscape for an AVS animated flyby
sequence. The data can be in geom format or a
simple 2d uniform topological map that can be
extruded using FIELD_2_MESH. Once again 
anything is OK as long as it has a fair varaition
in height (Altitude).


Thanks. Gary   -> G.Coulter@uk.ac.daresbury
From: jscherer@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: avs for the NeXT?
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:45:14 GMT
Reply-To: jscherer@novell.com
Organization: Novell, Inc.

Does a version of avs exist for the NeXT computer?

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San Jose, CA  95127

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
From: dlc@convex.com (Dominique Le Corre)
Subject: Re: How to get control of mouse in AVS and ....
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:57:43 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


AVS incorporates a mechanism called upstream transform & picking.
This mechanism allows an upstream module to get information from
a downstream module (typically the geometry viewer, which sends
information about selected objects, picked vertices, object
transformations,etc..).
It is used by some standard modules, like probes, arbitrary slicers,
hedgehog,stream lines, particle advector, but you can use it also
for your own modules.

D.LC
From: stearman@mr4dec.enet.dec.com (Susan Stearman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Re: Developers AVS and DEC???
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:13:28 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <5943@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>, drj@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Dave R. Jones) writes...

In response to David Jones post, I offer the following reply from Digital's 
Workstation Business Manager.  

"
  . Digital recognizes the inconsistencies, such as the problem cited by 
    Mr. Jones, that currently exist in multi-vendor AVS environment, and 
    have been working with Advanced Visual Systems Inc. to remedy them.


  . Digital and AVS Inc. recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding 
    concerning a restructuring of the Digital AVS relationship that would 
    eliminate problems of the type mentioned by Mr. Jones from Chevron.


  . Our goal is to have a definitive plan and agreement in place by the
    end of September, and we believe that that will remedy the problem
    Mr. Jones cites.
"

As soon as our negotiations with Advanced Visual Systems are completed, we 
will post an update to this newsgroup.  Thank you for your patience on this 
complicated issue.

Susan Stearman
stearman@mr4dec.enet.dec.com
Visualization Applications Marketing
Digital Equipment Corp.
From: highnam@slcs.slb.com (Peter Highnam)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Using a different X display ?
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:05:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: slcs.1992Aug20.190530.6787
Organization: Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science


 I would like to display an image/pixmap on an X display
 other than that which the AVS kernel is using.  I (and
 the Module Generator) wrote a simple module that takes
 a pixmap input and a display name typein.  It doesn't
 work.  The remote window appears but as soon as the
 code attempts a XGetImage the module takes a BadMatch X11
 error and dies.  Probing a little further I discovered
 that any attempt to treat the pixmap field of the AVSpixdata
 structure as the id of a Drawable kills the module...
 (The other fields of AVSpixdata are just fine.)

 Suggestions appreciated.

 Thanks,
 Peter
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
From: wbardwel@el_padre.mitre.org (Bill Bardwell)
Subject: How to tell if an output is connected?
Keywords: AVS output port
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:58:55 GMT

-- 
How do you tell if an output port is connected?
I have a module that takes an avsimage field (aka 4-vector 2D byte),
and displays it nicely on an 8bit screen (which the normal
"display image" doesn't since it won't dynamically choose and
allocate colors.) and output the image and color map
on ports, but this is time consuming and would be nice to avoid,
when not needed.  
---------------------------------------
William Bardwell
wbardwel@elara.mitre.org
From: kims@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kim Stephenson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Renderman
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:35:44 GMT
Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications

We're looking for an AVS module which will dump geometry data to PIXAR's 
Renderman.  If it is not currently (or soon) available we want to check 
into writting one but are trying to determine the potential problems and a 
timeline.  If anyone has worked with Renderman's toolkit or knows of an 
existing module any information/advice would be appreciated.

Kim Stephenson
NCSA
From: hampel@siemens.com. (Ken Hampel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: Question about many objects in one geometry file
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:02:57 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ


Can someone help me figure out how to have more than one object
in a geometry file. I'm trying to modify the byu.c filter which
converts byu format files to avs geometry files so that the
resulting .geom file contains many objects.
Then I came across something in a manual which lead me to believe
that the problem is in reading the geometry file. By default all
objects in a geometry file are read in as one big object? If so,
how can I read in each object separately.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Ken
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
From: hsingh@Turing.chem.uh.edu (Harpreet Singh)
Subject: Help required in getting a multiple selection file or text browser
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:58:14 GMT


Hi geniuses
	I wanted to know if there is any way in AVS that you can have
a string browser in which you can select multiple lines. (Eg. a 
file browser in which you can select multiple files at the same
time). 
	I want to have such a menu so that multiple displays can be 
displayed letting the user know which ones are being shown and which
are not.

Hope you get my problem.

Thanks
Harpreet
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
From: dlc@convex.com (Dominique Le Corre)
Subject: RdUcdAnim & WrUcdAnim
Keywords:  ucd animation
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:24:28 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


Hi, AVSers
2 new modules are available at IAC : WrUcdAnim and RdUcdAnim,
to write and read UCD animation sequences.
WrUcdAnim captures node positions, node data, cell data,
model data or any mix of these components for every time step.
RdUcdAnim reads back all or part of the stored data for each time step.
Optionally, a "preload" mode allows you to read all time steps into
memory, and then cycle to pointers.
Read the .txt files first to see which parts are functional.
D.LC
Enjoy.

Dominique Le Corre
dlc@cvxfr.fr.convex.com
From: gzc@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (G. Coulter,office,extension,homephone)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs
Subject: AVS Mesh.....
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:37:14 GMT
Reply-To: gzc@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

Keywords:

I am trying to visualize a set of fluid dynamic data representing super-sonic airflow.
The problem that I have is how to generate a 3D representation of the data. The data format is (2D field irregular float). Now if I feed this into FIELD_TO_MESH I just
get a plane representing the data, with color coding representing the data points. 
What I really want is somehow to extrude the data values to represent the "Z" value
of the data. This can be done in a sort of round about way by first converting the
field from irregular to uniform using a module such as IRREG_2_REG by Wes Bethel.
Passing the result through FIELD_TO_MESH then produces a desirable result but means
that the resulting data has been stripped of the all important coordinate grid
information. 

Any help would be great, even if its a totally different way of doing the whole thing.
Overall result similar 3D representation as FIELD_TO_MESH on uniform 2D field but
using irregular data.

Thanks:   Gary Coulter..
Reply to: gzc@uk.ac.daresbury
From: spl@szechuan.uucp (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH conference history
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:16:38 GMT
Organization: University of Calif., San Diego/Microscopy and Imaging Resource
NNTP-Posting-Host: szechuan.ucsd.edu

In article <1886@acf5.NYU.EDU> checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) writes:
>capelli@VNET.IBM.COM ("Ron Capelli") writes:
>
>>20.  1993   Anaheim
>>21.  1994   Orlando
>>22.  1995   Los Angeles
>
>Now that's the kind of history I like to see!

You mean you didn't go?  The LA one was *great*!!!  The all night
laser-holo-riot was the hit of the show.

							spl


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.. the fish swim in the lake/and do not even own clothing." - Ezra Pound
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.graphics.pixutils,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: Speedstar 24x
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:58:51 GMT

ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes:

>A major nit: GIFs are 8-bit, but the SVGA modes (256-color) on these cards
>are 6-bit - 256 out of 256K colors, not 256 out of 16M colors. GIFs on a
>640x480x24-bit screen look a little better than on a 640x480x256-col
>screen. If you don't believe me, write a program which displays half the
>image in 6-bit per gun resolution (simulating a standard SVGA screen), and
>the other half in the full 8-bits per gun. The difference becomes
>especially apparent when you start blowing up the image.

>Summary: for GIFs on a PC, Truecolor > SVGA > Hicolor.

>Mike

This 6-bit primaries thing is another legacy we have IBM to thank for.
I wonder if it would be possible to coax the 24X to use the full 24bit
RAMDAC with the 800x600 and 1024x768 256 color modes?  I'm still
waiting for the data book on the 24X.

------------
Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Xref: sparky comp.graphics:9080 comp.multimedia:2477 comp.terminals:1056 misc.forsale.computers:30725
From: JesseWest@cup.portal.com (jesse c newcomb)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.multimedia,comp.terminals,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Monitors WANTED
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:30:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Hi -

I'm looking for color composite monitors to use for video editing. If you
have something like a color Amiga monitor (or, better still, two identical
monitors) for sale, please let me know.

Thanks -

- Jesse Newcomb          JesseWest@cup.portal.com
(415) 964-6100 x227
(415) 965-2868 (home)
From: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Looking for RenderMan Sha
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:01:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 

To: coplex!uunet!uunet!joebloe!joseph

JNHC:>I'm looking for a library of RenderMan shaders available via ftp or
JNHC:>uucp.

JNHC:>In particular, I'd like to find spacecraft textures ... "crinkly gold
JNHC:>foil," "solar cell array," etc.

JNHC:>uunet!joebloe!joseph   (609) 273-8200 day   joseph%joebloe@uunet.uu.net
JNHC:>v   v  sssss | Certified Guru: all-grain brewing,| 2102 Ryan's Run East
JNHC:> v v  s   s  | C, synthesizer comp & arranging,  | Rt 38 & 41
JNHC:>  v    sss   | photography. Also not a bad cook. | Maple Shade NJ 08052
JNHC:>-----My employer isn't paying for this, and my opinions are my own-----

Id like to know where to get some shaders also.  I have built a HUGE
3D studio library but would REALLY like to get some renderman shaders.

Please let me know also.

Chris Nalley
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From: prestonm@cs.man.ac.uk (Martin Preston (Research Student))
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: I am the first one
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:06:30 GMT

In <1992Aug10.063028.4793@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> br707@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike L. Melamed) writes:

>Well, to tell you the truth, I am very surprised that there is no activity
>in the area...

>Common, let's get going.

Well i think that says all you can say about c.g. :-) :-) :-)

Martin
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From: rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Help printing in GNUPLOT
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:47:14 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

Hey,
        Can anyone tell me how to print a plot using gnuplot 
under MS-DOS?  I have tried using "set output "prn"", but this 
doesn't have any effect on my printer.  
 
Thanks,
Rob    

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: jester@crash.cts.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Looking for 3ds2rib filter
Date: 15 Aug 92 18:42:06 GMT

I'm looking for a 3D Studio to RIB converter for a friend.  He says that it's
called 3ds2rib (archie doesn't know about this file).

Does anyone have this/know where I can get it?

Thanks!

--
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From: donb@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Don Bayless)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 3D DataSets
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:44:53 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

Does anyone know of any sources for 3D data sets, I currently
have Viewpoint's latest catalog but would like to compile
a list of alternate sources....




Thanks,


Don Bayless
From: "frank palumbo" <frank.palumbo@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: new monitor and v card
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:09:14 EST
Reply-To: "frank palumbo" <frank.palumbo@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

        I am looking to buy a new monitor and video card. Can anyone
give me good and bad points on the following monitors and cards.
        CARDS: ATI graphics ultra
               Diamond speedstar 24x
               Diamond stealth vram
               Orchid farenheit 1280 S hi-color (new)
               Cardinal 900,765,color 24
        MONITORS: Samsung 15
                  Sony 1304s
                  Panasonic c1395
                  Sieke cm1450
                  Viewsonic 5+
                  Viewsonic 6fs
                  Goldstar 1490
                  Aamazing cm8486
                  Flexvision d1 1564
                                        Thanks for your comments.
                                                           Frank.
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From: cs8023@ee21.ncu.edu.tw (ee76536)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: New graphics era in PC Games
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:39:16 GMT
Organization: Dep. of EECS, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Hi, all graphics experters:

I am not sure if there are some of you playing IBM PC version's game
and did you realize there are some new progress for visual reality game?
one is the most famous Origin's Underworld.
I am very interesting on such technology (real time, real world sence 
generation) can you enlight me what kind of graphics field it was?


thanks anyway, best regards,
anthony
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
From: rollins@oktext.sbc.com (Steven D. Rollins)
Subject: Need format with smallest filesize for print/view
Reply-To: rollins@oktext.UUCP (Steven D. Rollins)
Organization: Southwestern Bell
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 15:08:34 GMT

	Does anyone know how various graphics formats compare filesize-wise.

	I have files that contain only (line circle arc text). No color, no 
	line weights, no fills, no various fonts. I need to store 15,000 
	files on disk to be accessable for viewing or printing.

	What format would provide the smallest filesize(hpgl ps eps tiff)?
	The reason for smallness is that some may need to be stored on
	laptops. I've tested zip(dos) and compress(unix) and would be
	willing to use these in addition because they seem to uncompress
	very quickly.
From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Worst of SIGGRAPH
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:02:25 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University

In <1992Aug18.093653.11855@cs.sfu.ca> chapman@cs.sfu.ca (John Chapman) writes:
>...(and is anyone else
>beside myself bothered by people citing the tutorials in papers?) -

I don't understand what you would prefer. Surely you are not suggesting that
people obtain information from the tutorials with citing them? That fringes
on plagurism. 

Michael


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                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty
From: groening@sdsc.edu (Chris Groening)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Computer Animation
Keywords: animation
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:58:02 GMT
Reply-To: groening@sdsc.edu
Distribution: world
Organization: San Diego Supercomputer Center @UCSD.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sluggo.sdsc.edu

Howdy,
	I am looking to get into computer animation and was wondering if anyone
out there could suggest any film schools, preferably ones on the east coast,
but any suggestions would be welcome.
	Also any other avenues that I may wish to pursue would be welcome
as suggestions as well.

Thank you kindly,
	chris (nope, no relation to Matt) groening
Xref: sparky comp.graphics:8840 comp.os.msdos.apps:4328
From: rogers@rtf.bt.co.uk (Neal Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: 3-D modelling software, any?
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:19:33 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

In article <92226.084716RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Robert Roxby) writes:
>Is there any dos software for 3-D modelling, i.e., constructing
>a perspective drawing on screen of an object from x,y,z coordinates?
>I want to model a boat hull.  Something that makes line drawings
>and allows rotations around different axes would be ok.  Even better
>if it could draw in continuous shades, with arbitrary placement of
>light sources, etc.  Thanks.  Robert

Well, if you've got a 386 or better, look no further than REND386.
It's available from sunee.uwaterloo.ca as /pub/rend386/demo4.zip.



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Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.graphics.pixutils,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
Subject: Speedstar 24x
Summary: Just making sure
Keywords: no probs?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:56:13 GMT

 
     
	I am on the verge of ordering the Diamond Speedstar 24x, and
just wanted to check some stuff out.  Someone reported having problems
in their 800x600 mode; can somebody tell me if they are reliably
running in the 800x600x32k mode? 
 	The "x" version of the 24 is worth the extra 30 bucks, eh? 
	It comes with a paint program, right? 
	Anybody have a "favorite" (read:cheap) place they got theirs
from? 
 
	Any other problems/considerations, that would make me opt for
the straight 24 instead?  The only real prob I have now is that I know
of no DOS viewer which supports the cool modes of the 24x, whereas I
know that Cshow has a driver out for the straigt 24....

thanks...
		rene@hardy.u.washington.edu


Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.graphics.pixutils,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Subject: Re: Speedstar 24x
Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:14:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.135538.21312@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com (John Manning) writes:
>
>>	Any other problems/considerations, that would make me opt for
>>the straight 24 instead?  The only real prob I have now is that I know
>>of no DOS viewer which supports the cool modes of the 24x, whereas I
>>know that Cshow has a driver out for the straigt 24....
>
>VPIC 4.8C works with it just great using the VESA modes.  These modes work
>up to 1024x768x256.  Since GIF is 8 bit anyway, there is no need for at
>GIF viewer to support the higher color modes.

A major nit: GIFs are 8-bit, but the SVGA modes (256-color) on these cards
are 6-bit - 256 out of 256K colors, not 256 out of 16M colors. GIFs on a
640x480x24-bit screen look a little better than on a 640x480x256-col
screen. If you don't believe me, write a program which displays half the
image in 6-bit per gun resolution (simulating a standard SVGA screen), and
the other half in the full 8-bits per gun. The difference becomes
especially apparent when you start blowing up the image.

Summary: for GIFs on a PC, Truecolor > SVGA > Hicolor.

Mike

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