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In article <1qvkaeINNgat@shelley.u.washington.edu> eylerken@stein.u.washington.edu (Ken Eyler) writes: >I need some help.  We are upgrading our animation/video editing stand. We >are looking into the different type of setups for A/B roll and a cuts only >station.  We would like this to be controlled by a computer ( brand doesnt matter but maybe MAC, or AMIGA).  Low end to high end system setups would be very >helpful. If you have a system or use a system that might be of use, could you >mail me your system requirements, what it is used for, and all the hardware and >software that will be necessary to set the system up.  If you need more  >info, you  can mail me at   eylerken@u.washington.edu > >thanks in advance. > >:ken >:eylerken@u.washington.edu   Here at Lewis and Clark College we have recently installed a Digital Film system (based on the Mac Quadra) that does non-linear, full digital editing.  If you're considering such a system, here are the pros and cons:  For the educational environment, this system is excellent.  We use it to produce a variety of educational materials for disemination on our local network.  Because this programming is going to be viewed on other Macs, the image quality is not as important as the ability to directly export the video to the Net.  We also use it to produce orientiation and promotional video programs for use by the Lewis & Clark community.  Since these programs are not meant for commercial or broadcast use, image quality is not critical.  The Digital Film system, for those of you who are uninitiated, is an A/B roll digitizing system on one $5000 JPEG compression card.  It was promoted as an inexpensive online editing system with SVHS quality.  SuperMac, the maker of the card, is trying to achieve this quality level, but as yet, has been unable to deliver.  Our system produces "near VHS" quality at 30 fields per second (640x480 overscan).  The card repeats every other field to get 60 fields per second.  This results in a kind of Super 8 film look that some find distracting.  If you can get past this problem, you'll find the Adobe Premier editing  software quite enjoyable with which to work.  It produces thousands of different effects from crystalize filters to DVE transitions to color matting.  Because of its non-linear nature, editing is fast and easy.  If you've ever used (or seen used) an AVID or Montage system, you'll recognize the methodology and the user interface.  The total system with Quadra 950 (40Megs of RAM), 1 gig drive, 21" Apple mon- itor, Panasonic SVHS 1960 edit deck, audio gear (cassette, CD, EQ, mixer, etc), Composite monitor, Digital Film card will set you back about $20,000.  For you video cowboys and girls, this system will not output at a quality that will satisfy most of your clients.  Even though you can perform more effects than a toasterhead can imagine, an Amiga based off-line based system will look better.  We use both Macs and Amigas for our video work.  Each for what each does best!
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.
Does anybody know about a converter from CGM to PCX or anything else more common.  I've spent some time searching the archives with no luck. Could you email me your responses.                     Thx in advance,                          Mike G.
In article <1rvpmc$3dd@nwfocus.wa.com> mpdillon@halcyon.com (Michael Dillon) writes: >>Does anyone know where I can find a code which would take concave >>polygons and break them up into a set of convex polygons? > >I also would like code or algorithms to do this.
Well, the temp file thing creates an obvious problem: it is impossible to use cview for viewing CD-ROM based picture collections. And it is the ONLY non- windows viewer that works properly with my Cirrus-based 24 bit VGA.
In article <1993Apr27.231613.27558@news.nd.edu> rmalayte@grumpy.helios.nd.edu (ryan malayter) writes: > >Does anyone know if a digitized version of the GeoSphere image is >available via ftp?  For those of you who don't know, it is a composite >photograph of the entire earth, with cloudcover removed.  I just think >it's really cool.  It was created with government funds and sattelites >as a research project, so I would assume it's in the public domain. > >Thanks for any info, >	Ryan >   I have a copy of 'The Earth-From Space' on my wall that I purchased from Space Shots, Inc. (LA, CA  (800) 272-2779).  As printed on the poster, the image was created by Tom Van Sant and the GeoSphere Project. The image IS copyrighted, so I doubt that you'll find it legally in the public domain.  Part of the proceeds from the sale of the image go to the  GeoSphere Project (an environmental education thing), and the cost is nominal, so crack a 20 and buy one!  Also, I don't think it's always safe to assume that just because the government 'funded' a project, any products will be provided for free.  Many government agencies (NASA, NOAA) and some private groups (National Geographic) provided assistance to the GeoSphere Project.  This collaboration seems to be mostly oriented to educating the public, rather than pure research.
Greetings all,    Does anyone use some form of 3D input device?  I would like to hear any information on any systems that people are currently using...  Please email responses. I will summarise if I get some feedback.
In article <1993Apr28.151652.23080@dsd.es.com>, pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) writes: |>Does this mean they can either do alpha or stenciling, but not both |>simultaneously?  I don't know the answer the to this one, although with 8-bits I would assume that it was one or the other.  |> |>> Stereo support	yes			yes |>> Other:			both machines will double buffer or do |>                                                                 ^^ |>> 				stereo output per window.  Both have an |>> 				auxiliary video output that is RS-170A, |>> 				NTSC, and PAL |>Same question again, does this mean they can either do double |>buffering or stereo, but not both simultaneously?  According to the literature, it will do quadruple buffering so that you can have double buffered stereo output.
In article <C5LErr.1J3@rahul.net>, bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes: |> In <1993Apr16.114158.2246@whiting.mcs.com> sean@whiting.mcs.com (Sean Gum) writes: |>  |> >A stupid question, but what will CView run on and where can I get it? I |> >am still in need of a GIF viewer for Linux. (Without X-Windows.) |> >Thanks! |> >  |>  |> Ho boy. There is no way in HELL you are going to be able to view GIFs or do |> any other graphics in Linux without X windows!  I love Linux because it is |> so easy to learn..  You want text?  Okay.   Use Linux. You want text AND |> graphics?  Use Linux with X windows.  Simple.  Painless.  REQUIRED to have |> X Windows if you want graphics!  This includes fancy word processors like |> doc, image viewers like xv, etc. |>   Sorry, Bryan, this is not quite correct. Remember the VGALIB package that comes with Linux/SLS? It will switch to VGA 320x200x256 mode *without* Xwindows. So at least it is *possible* to write a GIF viewer under Linux. However I don't think that there exists a similar SVGA package, and viewing GIFs in 320x200 is not very nice.  Best Regards,  Arno  --  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arno Schaefer				ENSIMAG, 2e Annee Email: schaefer@silene.imag.fr Tel.: (33) 76 51 79 95			:-)
In article 5742@sunvax.sun.ac.za, 8910782@sunvax.sun.ac.za () writes: >I am also looking for a surface for the chesspieces. The board is marble. >Unfortunately black won't work very well for the one side. Anybody with ideas >for nice surfaces?  How about brass or silver?  I've seen real chessboards that use that material.  > >Where should I post the finished chessboard? >  Right here is as good a place as any.  Can't wait to see it.  I use the POV raytracer - is it compatible enough for your chessboard?  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------      "I don't know if you've got the whole picture or not, but it doesn't        seem like he's running on all thrusters!" -- Leonard McCoy       "A guess?  You, Spock?  That's extraordinary!" -- James T. Kirk
Hello, I realize that this might be a FAQ but I have to ask since I don't get a change to read this newsgroup very often.  Anyways for my senior project I need to convert an AutoCad file to a TIFF file.  Please I don't need anyone telling me that the AutoCAD file is a vector file and the TIFF is a bit map since I have heard that about 100 times already I would just like to know if anyone knows how to do this or at least point me to the right direction.
They need a hit software product to encourage software sales of the product, i.e. the Pong, Pacman, VisiCalc, dBase, or Pagemaker of multi-media. There are some multi-media and digital television products out there already, albeit, not as capable as 3DO's.  But are there compelling reasons to buy such yet?  Perhaps someone in this news group will write that hit software :-)
In an attempt to do animation with POV I have created two little programs. One is a C program that will perform a "morph" between any two points given the amount of frames for the morph. And then it will write the points, and the function (translate, rotate, etc.) out to a file. Then I have a Perl script that will read the list of functions and insert them into a .pov file at a given line. I had hoped this would let me do simple animation. However, I have discovered that simply performing incremental rotations on an object will not spin a stationary object but will actually rotate the object about the axis. Now I know an easy way around this would be to first translate the object to the origin perform the rotation and then move it back but I know there  must be another way around this. I had thought perhaps it was because I had created objects at the origin and then translated them to a new point and then done the rotation, which could cause this behavior. However this occurs on objects that are not translated at all. Any help is  appreciated.
Yes, please create the group alt.raytrace soon!! I'm hooked on pov. geez. like I don't have anything better to do.... OH!! dave letterman is on...
Hello: 	can anybody help me to find a program that converts a format named 	"raw" (also known as "img") to the "gif" format or "jpeg" one. 	It's desirable to be for a unix machine than for a PC.  	( 	"Raw" format of a N*N image is a file that contain a tail of  	N*N characters, each one referencing to the k*N+j pixel of the  	monocrome image, where k and j lies between 0 and N-1. 	).
G'Day All,  I'm looking for a program to convert BMP images to GIF, TGA or even PPM.  I'd prefer a unix program, but Dos is fine also.  I've seen Alchemy (for DOS) and some windows image viewers which can save an image in other formats, but what I'm after is a converter not a viewer...  Any help would be apprieciated!  cheers Stephen.
Mark Wilson (mark@ocsmd.ocs.com) wrote: : Mark A. Cartwright (markc@emx.utexas.edu) wrote: : : 42 is 101010 binary, and who would forget that its the : : answer to the Question of "Life, the Universe, and Everything else." : : Of course the Question has not yet been discovered... : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : But it WAS discovered (sort of).  The question was "What is 7 times 8?"  [ Read on and there's a special prize at the bottom.  Amaze your friends and gain respect from your peers that you can carry on so long about the number 42. ]  The original question was "What is the meaning of Life, the Universe, and and Everything."  The answer generated by Deep Thought (the 2nd largest computer ever created) was 42.  Deep Thought realized that to understand the answer, one must really know what the question is.  Unfortunately, he didn't.  But he was able to help build the largest computer (named Earth) which could figure out the real question.  (I know this is background knowledge for everyone here... just bear with me a sec... :)  When Arthur pulled the scrabble tiles out of the bag, he spelled out "What is nine times six?" (or the like).  However, it is not clear that the monkey-man had the right question in his brain, especially since it was that lady in the diner (which was vaporized moments later) that came up with the answer to how everyone could get along.  On the other hand, Marvin said he saw the answer in Dent's brain, so lets presume it's  correct.  Well, NINE TIMES SIX ***IS*** FORTY-TWO!!!  ...in base 13.  Chew on that for awhile... :)  -- Chris Russell            Custom software, networks, CASE tools, and consulting Adaptive Solutions       Sun SPARC, SGI IRIS, HP Apollo, Macintosh, & PC
I am currently using POVRay on Mac and was wondering if anyone in netland knows of public domain anti-aliasing utilities so that I can skip this step in POV, very slow on this machine.  Any suggestions, opinions about post-trace anti-aliasing would be greatly appreciated.
I am unable to run Quicktime 1.5 on my IIvx running System 7.1, and 	I don't know why. (If there is a better group to post this to, please 	let me know.) Quicktime 1.0 works fine, but when I try to run a movie 	in any application that supports it, Like Simple Player, Canvas or 	Word, I get the message "sorry a system error occurred '<Application>' 	unimplemented trap <continue> <restart>", I press <continue> and get 	"The application 'unknown' has unexpectedly quit, because an error of 	type 12 occurred." Substitute Simple Player or Canvas or Word for 	'<Application>, and the messages are always the same. If I restart with 	Quicktime 1.0, I have no problems. Any suggestions? I am at a loss. 		Thanks in advance. Oh yah, please email me as I don't check 		the newsgroups very often. 			Dan Bradley deb47099@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
I saw an imaging program some time ago on an Amiga that had Cross, Sobel and Roberts filters for edge detection.   Can anybody direct me to these algorithms.  Paul Denize  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Denize                                Internet: PDenize@Waikato.ac.nz Department of Computer Science University of Waikato                         phone: ++64 7 8562-889 Hamilton                                                          Ext 8743 NEW ZEALAND                                   fax  : ++64 7 8560-135
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question.  If not, please forgive me and point me in the right direction.  Does anybody know of a program that converts .GIF files to .BMP files and if so, where can I ftp it from?  Any help would be greatly  appreciated.  Please respond via e-mail as I do not read this group very often.
I cant get through to the author of rtrace. His site is inaccessible can he upload the new version somewhere else please?
johnm@spudge.lonestar.org (John Munsch) writes:  >In article <loT1rAPNBh107h@viamar.UUCP> rutgers!viamar!kmembry writes: >>Read Issue #2 of Wired Magazine.  It has a long article on the "hype" of >>3DO.  I've noticed that every article talks with the designers and how >>"great" it is, but never show any pictures of the output (or at least >>pictures that one can understand)  >Gamepro magazine published pictures a few months ago and Computer Chronicles >(a program that is syndicated to public tv stations around the nation) spent >several minutes on it when it was shown at CES.  It was very impressive what >it can do in real time.  >John Munsch  The April 1993 edition of MIX Magazine carries a story on 3DO which includes pictures of the unit, a schematic of what's inside and some indication from the people at 3DO as to where they intend to go and in what stages. (MIX is a trade rag aimed at the professional sound engineering community.)  The schematic shows a central DMA Engine connecting and mediating between two Graphics Animation processors (32 bit bus), a 32-bit RISC processor with math co-processor, Video Decomp module, a control port, an expansion port (where 3DO hangs its double-fast CD player), 1Mb DRAM, an optional video port (for editing video) and on the outbound side 1MB VRAM to Video Processor to TV chain parallel with a DSP to sound chain.   They promise Red Book CD-quality audio, full 30 fps video and a future connection path to your PC via a PC expansion card.  I am not informed enough to have an opinion about the various means and methods discussed here. The article, written by Philip De Lancie, does cover the other machines mentioned in this thread.  I come from the PC TCP/IP world and see a tremendous potential for bringing connectedness to the educated consumer; 3DO seems to have the right business partners to make this happen.   Hope this helps.
haabn@nye.nscee.edu (Frederick J. Haab) writes:   >I need to implement an algorithm to fractally generate clouds >as sort of a benchmark for some algorithms I'm working on.  Just as a matter of interest, a self-promo computer graphics sequence  that one of the local TV stations used to play quite a lot a couple of years ago showed a 3D flyover of Australia from the West coast to the East.  The clouds were quite recognisable as fuzzy, flat, white Mandlebrot sets!!
The Vatican library recently made a tour of the US.  Can anyone help me in finding a FTP site where this collection is   available.
Help!  I'm trying to program my VGA!  I've got it working with in pascal with the following routines for mode $13h (320*200*256).  I've got a VESA compatable Trident 8900C w/1meg and need to program in 1024*768 mode.  I don't care how many colors.   Could someone take this code and help me write 2 new procedures to replace them so that it'll work in 1024*768*16 or 1024*768*256?   That'd be GREAT!  Thanks...   Here is the code I currently have for 320*200*256 mode:     Procedure GraphMode;       Begin { VideoMode }       Asm         Mov  AH,00         Mov  AL,13h         Int  10h       End;     End;  { VideoMode }     Procedure PlotPoint (x, y, c : Integer);       Begin       Mem[$A000:x+y*320]:=c;     End;    --
renew@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Rene Walter) writes: : A very kind soul has mailed me this reply for the bugs in CView. : Since he isn't in the position to post this himself, he asked me to post : it for him, but to leave his name out. So here it comes: :  : CView has quite a number of bugs.  The one you mention is perhaps the most : A stupid question, but what will CView run on and where can I get it? I am still in need of a GIF viewer for Linux. (Without X-Windows.) Thanks!
what about  qrttoppm < file.dis | ppmtotga > file.tga  ??
In article <NERONE.93Apr20085951@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu>, nerone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Nerone) writes: |> In article <1quvdoINN3e7@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, tdawson@engin.umich.edu (Chris Herringshaw) writes: |>  |>   CH> Concerning the proposed newsgroup split, I personally am not in |>   CH> favor of doing this.  I learn an awful lot about all aspects of |>   CH> graphics by reading this group, from code to hardware to |>   CH> algorithms.  I just think making 5 different groups out of this |>   CH> is a wate, and will only result in a few posts a week per group. |>   CH> I kind of like the convenience of having one big forum for |>   CH> discussing all aspects of graphics.  Anyone else feel this way? |>   CH> Just curious. |>  |> I must agree.  There is a dizzying number of c.s.amiga.* newsgroups |> already.  In addition, there are very few issues which fall cleanly |> into one of these categories. |>  |> Also, it is readily observable that the current spectrum of amiga |> groups is already plagued with mega-crossposting; thus the group-split |> would not, in all likelihood, bring about a more structured |> environment. |>  |> -- |>    /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ |>   /    Michael Nerone   \"I shall do so with my customary lack of tact; and\ |>  /   Internet Address:   \since you have asked for this, you will be obliged\ |> /nerone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu\to pardon it."-Sagredo, fictional char of Galileo.\  Hi, It might be nice to know, what's possible on different hard ware platforms. But usually the hard ware is fixed ( in my case either Unix or DOS- PC ). So I'm not much interested in Amiga news.   In the case of Software, I won't get any comercial software mentioned in this newgroup to run on a Unix- platform, so I'm not interested in this information.  I would suggest to split the group. I don't see the problem of cross-posting. Then you need to read just 2 newgroups with half the size.   BUT WHAT WOULD BE MORE IMPORTANT IS TO HAVE A FAQ. THIS WOULD REDUCE THE TRAFFIC A LOT.  Sincerely, Gerhard
In article <1993Apr17.092051.19814@kth.se> d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte) writes: >In <Z2442B4w164w@cellar.org> tsa@cellar.org (The Silent Assassin) writes: > >>> I'm building a CAD package and need a 3D graphics library that can handle >>> some rudimentry tasks, such as hidden line removal, shading, animation, etc. >>>  >>> Can you please offer some recommendations? > >I think APDA has something called MacWireFrame which is a full >wire-frame (and supposedly hidden-line removal) library. >I think it weighs in at $99 (but I've been wrong on an order >of magnitude before) >   I spoke with the author of MacWireFrame earlier today. The cost is $299, but there  are no license royalties. His name is Eric Johnson in Sacramento, CA phone  916/737-1550. He doesn't have email. Very nice guy... very knowledgeable about  graphics. Seems like he may have a decent package. It's an Object Pascal Framework  that supposedly has a fairly complete set of geometry creation classes.   I'm going to check it out and see if it's got what I need for my CAD package.   I also found another package: 3D Graphic Tools by Micro System Options in Seattle.  The number is: 206/868-5418, also no email. The package is strong at ray tracing,  I'm not too sure about its geometry creation tools. I also need to look into this  package some more. I also spoke with the author, Mark Owens, another nice  guy that seems to know his business. The price is $249, no royalties.
Hello, i'm interested in those devices too. Could also send me your suggestions. Thank in advance. Regards. --
Jian Lu (jian@coos.dartmouth.edu) wrote: : We are interested in purchasing a grayscale printer that offers a good : resoltuion for grayscale medical images.  Can anybody give me some : recommendations on these products in the market, in particular, those : under $5000?  : Thank for the advice.
In article <1993Apr19.171704.2147@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> (comp.graphics.gnuplot,comp.graphics), rdd@uts.ipp-garching.mpg.de (Reinhard Drube) writes: >In article <C5ECnn.7qo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, nish@cv4.chem.purdue.edu (Nishantha I.) writes: >|> 	Could somebody let me know of a drawing utility that can be >|> used to manipulate postscript files.I am specifically interested in >|> drawing lines, boxes and the sort on Postscript contour plots. >|> 	I have tried xfig and I am impressed by it's features. However >|> it is of no use since I cannot use postscript files as input for the >|> programme.Is there a utility that converts postscript to xfig format? >|> 	Any help would be greatly appreciated. >|> 				Nishantha Have you checked out Adobe Illustrator? There are a few Unix versions for it available, depending on your platform. I know of two Unix versions: One for Mach (NeXT) and for Irix (SGI). There may be others, such as for Sun SparcStation, but I don't know for sure.  ttyl,
In article <1993Apr20.053250.24854@worak.kaist.ac.kr> stjohn@math1.kaist.ac.kr (Ryou Seong Joon) writes: >Hi!...  > >I am searching for packages that could handle Multi-page GIF >files...      If you are looking for viewer try VPIC60
Is there any program available (free or otherwise) for taking a tiff or gif or some other bitmapped file and turning it (or parts of it) into ascii characters?    DOS, OS/2 or platform independent programs if possible.