waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
From article <1993May1.092058.1@aurora.alaska.edu>, by pstlb@aurora.alaska.edu: >   >   I put it to you thus:  Where HAS the hacker ethic gone?  If it still exists, > where?  And, if it DOES exist, why are those who call themselves "hackers" > allowing this to perpetuate itself?  Why are they not creating new, innovative, > interesting ideas to stop the SOS from maintaining its choke hold on the > computer industry?  Since this was posted on comp.ai, I assume there is an AI angle to this.  Hacking is what AI students do when they're really supposed to be doing something else, e.g. thesis research & write up, getting their supervisors' pet programs to run properly, etc.  No-one gets much glory for hacking, and no-one gets any money out of it. Producing good free software requires an enormous investment of time & resources that not many people can, or want to, afford - particularly during a recession.  In addition, over the last 10 years, I think there has been a de-emphasis on producing running programs in AI research, and a greater emphasis on more formal approaches to problem-solving.  Students have been proving theorems instead of writing programs. At a conference a year or two ago, Johann de Kleer suggested that everyone should 'Get back to the keyboard' and write more programs that demonstrate their ideas - and I have to say I'm inclined to agree.  (I don't claim to be a superhacker, but I don't think that invalidates my remarks. And I'm sure this isn't the whole story.)
Apparently, my editor didn't do what I wanted it to do, so I'll try again.  i'm looking for any programs or code to do simple animation and/or drawing using fractals in TurboPascal for an IBM               Thanks in advance
can someone tell me where i could find ansi or ascii pics?  I already found the gopher ascii pics.   thanks  Richard Mancsuo
In article <1993Apr14.102007.20664@uk03.bull.co.uk> scrowe@hemel.bull.co.uk writes:    >    > I am looking for an algorithm to determine if a given point is bound by a    > polygon. Does anyone have any such code or a reference to book containing   > information on the subject ?   >    >                 Regards   >    >                         Simon   >  /* +-------------------------------------------------------------------+    |                                                                   |    | Function    : PuntBinnenPolygoon                                  |    |                                                                   |    +-------------------------------------------------------------------+    |                                                                   |    | Auteur      : Cornelis Wessels                                    |    |                                                                   |    | Datum       : 11-01-1993                                          |    |                                                                   |    | Omschrijving: Bepaalt of de aangeboden VECTOR2D p binnen of op de |    |               rand van het polygoon P valt.                       |    |                                                                   |    +-------------------------------------------------------------------+    |                                                                   |    | Wijzigingen : -                                                   |    |                                                                   |    +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ */  CLIBSTATUS PuntBinnenPolygoon ( POLYGOON *P, VECTOR2D *p )   {   VECTOR2D o, v, w;   INDEX    aantal_snijpunten, N, n;    aantal_snijpunten = 0;   N                 = GeefPolygoonLengte(P);   GeefPolygoonRandpunt ( P, N, &o );    for ( n=1; n<=N; n++ )     {     GeefPolygoonRandpunt ( P, n, &v );      if ( o.x >= p->x && v.x <  p->x || 	 o.x <  p->x && v.x >= p->x  )       {       w.x = p->x;       InterpoleerLineair ( &o, &v, &w );        if ( w.x == p->x && w.y == p->y ) 	return(CLIBSUCCES);       else if ( w.y > p->y ) 	aantal_snijpunten++;       }      KopieerVector2d ( &v, &o );     }    if ( aantal_snijpunten%2 == 0 )     return(CLIBERBUITEN);   else     return(CLIBSUCCES);   }
In article <1993Apr15.164940.11632@mercury.unt.edu> Sean McMains <mcmains@unt.edu> writes: >Wow! A 68070! I'd be very interested to get my hands on one of these, >especially considering the fact that Motorola has not yet released the >68060, which is supposedly the next in the 680x0 lineup. 8-D  The 68070 is made by someone other than Motorola (Signetics perhaps), and was (if memory serves me correctly) a 68000 compatible single chip micro type chip. IE built in extra toys like serial ports, ram interfaces etc. So, laugh all you want, but there is such a critter!
In article <1993Apr29.023508.11556@koko.csustan.edu> rsc@altair.csustan.edu (Steve Cunningham) writes: | |And no, SIGGRAPH 93 has not skipped town -- we're preparing the best |SIGGRAPH conference yet!  Speaking of SIGGRAPH, I just went through the ordeal of my annual registration for SIGGRAPH and re-upping of membership in the ACM last night, and was I ever grossed out!  The new prices for membership are almost highway robbery!  For example:  	SIGGRAPH basic fee went from $26 last year to $59 this year for the same 	thing, a 127% increase.  Those facile enough to arrange a trip to the 	annual conference could reduce this to $27 by selecting SIGGRAPH Lite, 	which means SIGGRAPH is charging an additional $32 (or so) for the 	proceedings and the art show catalog, essentially.  	TOPLAS went up 40% in cost, way outstripping the current inflation rate.  	Basic SIGCHI fees remainded the same, but whereas before SIGCHI 	membership included UIST and Human Factors conferences proceedings, 	these are now an extra cost option.  Bundling that back into the basic 	rate, equivalent services have gone up 100% in cost.  	SIGOIS membership cost has up 33%, but they've also split out the 	Computer Supported Cooperative Work conference proceedings that used to 	be included with membership.  Adding that cost back in means this SIG 	also has doubled its membership fee.  What really galls me is that the ACM sent out brochures a couple months ago touting their new approach to providing member services, and tried to make it sound like they were offering NEW services.  But with the exception of a couple, like SIGGRAPH, all the "plus" services appear to be just splitting the costs into smaller piles so that they don't look so big.  But their recommended changes to my membership would have me paying 90% more than last year for a 31% increase in services (measured by cost, not by value), and, curiously, a 31% inflation rate on the publications I got last year.  Is anyone out there as galled by this extortion as I am? ________________________________________________________________________________ Robert Reed			Home Animation Ltd.		503-656-8414 robert@slipknot.rain.com	5686 First Court, West Linn, OR 97068  SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS
Hi there,  I am here looking for some help.  My friend is a interior decor designer. He is from Thailand. He is trying to find some graphics software on PC. Any suggestion on which software to buy,where to buy and how much it costs ? He likes the most sophisticated  software(the more features it has,the better)
In article <1993Apr17.054600.24917@exu.ericsson.se> ebuhcb@ebu.ericsson.se writes: >In article 16APR199309101156@trentu.ca, ayounes@trentu.ca (Amro Younes, Trent University, C.C. #314, Peterborough, ON, Canada K9J 7B8. (705) 749-0391) writes: >>I have the ATI GRAPHICS ULTRA PRO EISA version.  I must admit it has  >>received bad press but that was due to the faulty drivers it had.   > >PC Magazine seems to be impressed with the ATI card in their most recent >reviews.  In the April 13th issue they rate the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro >(EISA version) as their "Editor's Choice".  They noted that the drivers >had improved since they tested the ISA version in January... >                                                            ...Cuyler Yeah - they also gave it their "Editor's Choice" in the run-down of graphics accelerators they tested in the previous issue, which is why I bought (and then returned) mine.  The only conclusion I can come up with is that PC Magazine has wildly different ways on determining the worthiness of a video card than I do.
In article <5731@seti.inria.fr>, deniaud@cartoon.inria.fr (Gilles Deniaud) writes: |>  |> Thanks to the people who helped me with the problem of |> displaying 24 bit images. All the viewers like xli, |> xloadimage and display are converting the 24 bit images |> to 8 bit before display them on the screen. |>  |> What I really want is a viewer with make use of the 24 bit |> frame/screen buffer (in our case, the Parallax one). |>   Try ImageMagick. I cannot test it but one told me it does 24bit. Anyway, are you SURE your Xserver supports 24bit TrueColor visuals ? Check with xdpyinfo !
peter@gort.trl.OZ.AU (Peter K. Campbell) writes: : ridout@bink.plk.af.mil (Brian S.  Ridout) writes: :  : >In article <1993Apr15.134802.21995@mfltd.co.uk>, sts@mfltd.co.uk (Steve Sherwood (x5543)) writes: : >|> Has anyone got multiverse to work ? : >|>          Extn 5543, sts@mfltd.co.uk, !uunet!mfocus!sts :  : I've tried compiling it on several SPARCstations with gcc 2.22.  After : fixing up a few bugs (3 missing constant definitions plus a couple of : other things) I got it to compile & link, but after starting client : & server I just get a black window; sometimes the client core dumps, : sometimes the server, sometimes I get a broken pipe, sometimes it : just sits there doing nothing although I occassionally get the : cursor to become a cross-hair in dog-fight, but that's it.  I've : sent word to the author plus what I did to fix it last week, but : no reply as yet. :  : Peter K. Campbell : p.campbell@trl.oz.au  I've discovered a bug in the libraries/parser/parser.c loadcolour function where it was generating a segmentation fault.  It appears the colourList[] is geting corrupted somehow.  I had it return random colours instead and everything worked great (except for a few colour problems) so I know its the only thing wrong.  The colour table somehow gets a couple of nulls placed in it so when the "name" of the colours are compared it crashes.  I haven't found the problem yet maybe someone else can.
In article <1993Apr26.173254.12871@qiclab.scn.rain.com> baer@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Ken Baer) writes: >In article <1993Apr22.205418.27411@osf.org> omar@godzilla.osf.org (Mark Marino) writes: >>Hi Folks, >> >>   Does anyone have a copy of Playmation they'd be willing to sell me.  I'd  >>love to try it out, but not for the retail $$$. > >Playmation is available direct from Anjon & Associates for $299.    Oops, forgot the phone number.  It's 1-800-377-8287.
Can someone please give me a couple names of anonymous ftp sites that cater to graphics.  I am looking for info/ sources/images for building a ray tracer.     Thanks,
In article <1r1rsiINNld@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>, srlnjal@grace.cri.nz writes:  >Does anyone know of software that will allow >you to convert CorelDraw (.CDR) files >containing bitmaps to SCODAL, as this is the >only format our bureau's filmrecorder recognises.  Corel Draw will do it; version 2 onwards. If you have version 1 perhaps an upgrade is in order.  Another alternative would be to use a different bureau that can take PostScript.  -- Chris Lilley ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Author, ITTI Computer Graphics and Visualisation Training Project Computer Graphics Unit, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Road,  Manchester, UK.  M13 9PL                        Internet: C.C.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk  Voice: +44 (0)61 275 6045  Fax: +44 (0)61 275 6040 Janet: C.C.Lilley@uk.ac.mcc
Hi  I would like to know if there is any software, PD or not, who could produce X11 output of HPGL file on RS/6000. And same kind of software who could produce hardcopy on postscript and lasetjet.  Thank You
Does anyone know of any c or c++ libraries for preparing and displaying quickly pages of mixed text, mathematical equations, and graphics (circles,ellipses,etc) on the vdu? The maths wouldnt need to be up to TeX quality, but it would be useful to be scaleable. The main thing would be to be able to generate the display quickly from a minimum set of formatting code. Thanks, Ed Campbell
I have many icons in IconEdit and PBIcon format and I would like to  convert them to PBM, PGM or PPM format. Do you know the formats of IconEdit or PBIcon?
d9hh@dtek.chalmers.se (Henrik Harmsen) writes:  >1-4 bits per R/G/B gives horrible machbanding visible in almost any picture.  >5 bits per R/G/B (32768, 65000 colors) gives visible machbanding  >color-gradient picture has _almost_ no machbanding. This color-resolution is   >see some small machbanding on the smooth color-gradient picture, but all in all, >There _ARE_ situiations where you get visible mach-banding even in >a 24 bit card. If >you create a very smooth color gradient of dark-green-white-yellow >or something and turn >up the contrast on the monitor, you will probably see some mach-banding.      While I don't mean to damn Henrik's attempt to be helpful here, he's using a common misconception that should be corrected.      Mach banding will occur for any image.  It is not the color quantization you see when you don't have enough bits.  It is the human eye's response to transitions or edges between intensities. The result is that colors near the transistion look brighter on the brighter side and darker on the darker side.  --Andre
Hello,  We are looking for a graphics package (preferably complete with source code) that will run on our UNIX operating system (a Sequent running DYNIX 3.2).  This graphics package must  support a wide variety of character based graphics devices  (PC's running a terminal emulator, primarily).   At this point, X11 graphics is not an option.  This graphics program should, if possible, support these sorts of graphics operations (minimum requirements):     1) Complicated axes (log, linear, etc.) with fairly       precise axis labels (multi-line labels, etc.)       Major and minor tickmarks on axes, etc.	       2) It would be nice if some limited amount of color       plotting were available, if the output device       supported it.  We have a copy of gnuplot and are currently using it, but gnuplot has some limitations.  We are looking for something more robust than gnuplot.  At this point, I'm looking for information about packages that might solve our problems.  If you have any information, please contact me at the above email address.  If the product you know about is a commercial software package, please send a phone number or email address so that I can contact them about pricing, etc.
renner@adobe.com (John Renner) writes:  > In article <19930420.090030.915@almaden.ibm.com> capelli@vnet.IBM.COM (Ron Ca > >In <ia522B1w165w@oeinck.waterland.wlink.nl> Ferdinand Oeinck writes: > >>I'm looking for any information on detecting and/or calculating a double > >>point and/or cusp in a bezier curve. > > > >See: > >   Maureen Stone and Tony DeRose, > >   "A Geometric Characterization of Parametric Cubic Curves", > >   ACM TOG, vol 8, no 3, July 1989, pp. 147-163. >  > I've used that reference, and found that I needed to go to their > original tech report: >  > 	Maureen Stone and Tony DeRose, > 	"Characterizing Cubic Bezier Curves" > 	Xerox  EDL-88-8, December 1988 >   First, thanks to all who replied to my original question.
Hi! 	I am working on a project that needs to create contour lines from random data points.  The work that I have done so far tells me that I need to look into Triangulated Irregular Networks (TIN), the Delauney criiterion, and the Krige method.  Does anyone have any suggestions for references, programs and hopefully source code for creating contours.  Any help with this or any surface modeling would be greatly appreciated. I can be reached at the addresses below:   			-- Paul Conway
Ok, lets say youve got a grid of hexagons  that go in a        10                      9                     10                      9                     etc..  for a total of 15 rows down  that means there are 10 hexagons in the 1st line, 9 lined up underneath in the second line 10 lined up underneath in the third line 9 lined up under neath in the fourht...    the problem is  given the center of any arbritrary hexagon, and a line with and arbritrary slope, Which hexagons does that line cross through  (The line doesn't necessarily have to cross through the center of other hexagon,it can even be a tangent and count).  Any helpers, my friend was baffeled when trying to figure this. :w
A few days back someone posted info on a gopher site where you could search for medical graphics, etc.  Could someone please repost or mail me a copy?  I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks!  Mark
Let's say you have a scanned image of a line drawing; in this case a boat, but it could be anything.  On the drawing you have a set of reference points whose true x,y positions are known.    Now you digitize the drawing manually (in this case, using Yaron Danon's excellent Digitize program).  That is, you use a program which converts cursor positions to x,y and saves those values when you click the mouse.  Upon digitizing you notice that the reference point values that come out of the digitizing process differ in small but significant ways from the known true values.  This is understandable because the scanned drawing is a reproduction of the original and there are successive sources of distortion such as differential expansion and contraction of paper, errors introduced in the printing process, scanner errors and what have you.  The errors are not uniform over the entire drawing, so "global" adjustments such as stretching/contracting uniformly over x or y, or rotating the whole drawing, are not satisfactory.  So the question is: does any kind soul know of an algorithm for removing such distortion?  In particular, if I have three sets of points   Reference(x,y) (the known true values)  DistortedReference(x,y) (the same points, with known errors)  DistortedData(x,y) (other points, with unknown errors)  what function of Reference and Distorted could I apply to DistortedData to remove the errors.  I suspect the problem could be solved by treating the distorted reference points as resulting from the projection of a "bumpy" 3d surface, solving for the surface and then "flattening" it to remove the errors in the other data points.  Any kind and informed soul out there have any ideas, or better yet, pointers to treatments of the same or similar problems?  Thanks,
I am looking for a means to add FLI and FLC animation creation to a Windows application.  I was hoping for something along the lines of AAWIN or AAPLAY by Autodesk but for the creation of these delta  compressed animations.  I have FLILIB but this seems to be coded for  the Large memory model of DOS with Turbo C. Ideally I would like a DLL or Medium model object library, but would settle for anything, really.  I've seen other Windows apps with FLI/FLC creation, did they hack the FLILIB code into submission?  Any pointers would be appreciated, please send mail directly to me and I will summarize the results if there is interest.
Actually I am trying to write something like this but I encounter some problems, amongst them:  - drawing a 3d wireframe view of a quadric/quartic requires that you have the explicit equation of the quadric/quartic (x, y, z functions of some parameters). How to convert the implicit equation used by PoV to an explicit one? Is it mathematically always possible?
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If anyone has a list of companies doing data visualization (software or hardware) I would like to hear from them.  Thanks.  	-- krs --
I got the univesa driver available over the net. I thought that finally my 1-meg oak board would be able to show 680x1024 256 colors. Unfortunately a program still says that I can't do this. Is it the fault of the program (fractint) or is there something wrong with my card. 	univesa- a free driver available over the net that makes many boards vesa compatible.
Some time ago (about 1 month) there was a bit of discussion         about a universal VESA driver for > 8bit cards.  It was in         the file uvesa32.zip.  Well i can't find it, does anyone know         where it is (gorilla.something.something.au), and what sort         of cards it works for ?          Also would it be pushing my luck to ask for someone to post         it to some appropriate group.
EUROPEAN COMPUTER RESEARCH CENTRE  Research Positions in 3D Graphics  ECRC is currently expanding its research staff in three-dimensional graphics. We are looking for highly qualified researchers with a PhD in computer science and a proven ability to conduct highly innovative research. Preference will be given to candidates who have strong experience in developing and implementing algorithms for three-dimensional graphics, visualization and user interaction. We presently have positions available for both experienced researchers and recent graduates.  Candidates with especially strong backgrounds may be considered for positions as visiting scientists or for Ph.D. student research positions.  The European Computer-Industry Research Centre is located in Munich, Germany with English as the working language. The centre is funded by a consortium of major computer companies, with a mission to pursue research in fundamental areas of computer science. Active areas of research include visualization and user interfaces, distributed computing, parallelism, deductive systems and databases. The center employs 45 researchers of 21 different nationalities.  The small but rapidly growing graphics group is currently investigating new methods for three-dimensional human-computer interaction and the integration of computer vision and computer graphics technology. The center has extensive computing facilities which includes Sun workstations, Apple Macintoshes, a well equipped graphics laboratory and network access to super-computer facilities.
I'm looking for the following paper:  Marlow, S. and Powell, M.J.D. A FORTRAN subroutine for plotting the part of a conic that is inside a given triangle. Rep. R-8336, Atomic Energy Res. Establishment, Harwell, England 1976  Or anything related (including 3D cases)  Max -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Max Froumentin                    | Laboratoire d'Informatique        |  "Always better, never first."          Fondamentale de Lille             |         - Tigran Petrossian France                            |
I've been away for a couple of weeks and have become out of touch with the  latest information on the Diamond Viper Card.  Does anyone know if Diamond  has come out with any Vesa Driver updates lately?  Also, I was wondering  what the latest Windows Driver version is up to now.  				Thanks in advance, 					Dan