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re pov previewer actually i am trying to write something like this but i encounter some problems amongst them drawing a d 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 expl...
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re real time graphics in article c va r kk taurus cs nps navy mil stockel oahu oc nps navy mil jim stockel writes hi i will be writing a data acquisition program to collect data from a variety of sources including rs and external a d s and i would like to be able to display the data in near realtime i ve done this type...
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bgi drivers for svga i require bgi drivers for super vga displays and super xvga displays does anyone know where i could obtain the relevant drivers ftp sites regards simon crowe
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re vesa on the speedstar kjb mgl uvesa zip this is a universal vesa driver it supports most video boards chipsets include the speedstar and x up to bit color terry p s i ve tried it on a speedstar and x and it works not with all software for instance it doesn t work at all with animator pro from autodesk it can t detec...
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none set bear with me i m new at this game but could anyone explain exactly what dmorf does does it simply fade one bitmap into another or does it re shape one bitma p into another please excuse my ignorance i not even sure if i ve posted thi s message correctly
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help wanted for dmorf please bear with me as i am new at this game i apologize unreservedly if i hav e posted another message earlier by mistake but i digress could anyone out th ere please explain exactly what dmorf does dtax exe does it simply fade one bitmap into another or does it reshape one bitmap into another ex...
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test sorry
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re rumours about do 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 do s but are there compelling reasons to buy such yet perha...
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technical help sought hi i am in immediate need for details of various graphics compression techniques so if you know where i could obtain descriptions of algo rithms or public domain source codes for such formats as jpeg gif and fractals i would be immensely grateful if you could share the info with me this is for a p...
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surface normal orientations some rendering programs require that all surface normals point in the same direction ie on a closed cube all normals point outwards you can use the points on the faces to determine the direction of the normal by making sure that all points are either in clockwise or counter clockwise order h...
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re graphics library package wgt is the wordup graphics toolkit designed by yours truly and my co programmer and brother chris egerter it is a turbo borland c graphics library for programming in vga we are currently producing it as shareware but in a few years it may be a commercial product excuse typos there s no backs...
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re signature image database contact signaware corp original memo bcc vincent wall from imaging club subject signature verification date sent sci image processing from yyqi ece arizona edu yingyong qi subject signature image database organization u of arizona electrical and computer engineering hi all could someone tell...
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re surface normal orientations in article apr cis uab edu sloan cis uab edu kenneth sloan writes a brilliant algorithm not seriously it s correct up to a sign change the flaw is obvious and will therefore not be shown sorry about that kenneth sloan computer and information sciences sloan cis uab edu university of alaba...
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re genoa blitz hits x x ni i am sorry but this genoa card does nothing that the ati ultra plus mb can t do plus the ati costs us street price
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re surface normal orientations in article pscti aqe travis csd harris com srp travis csd harris com stephen pietrowicz writes how do you go about orienting all normals in the same direction given a set of points edges and faces look for edge inconsistencies consider two vertices p and q which are connected by at least ...
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re surface normal orientations in pscti aqe travis csd harris com srp travis csd harris com stephen pietrowicz writes how do you go about orienting all normals in the same direction given a set of points edges and faces this algorithm works well for me algorithm to attempt to find outward facing normals first mark all ...
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re million vs thousand colors andrey cco caltech edu andre t yew writes d hh dtek chalmers se henrik harmsen writes bits per r g b gives horrible machbanding visible in almost any picture bits per r g b colors gives visible machbanding color gradient picture has almost no machbanding this color resolution is see some s...
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re real time graphics in article apr falcon aamrl wpafb af mil dsnyder falcon aamrl wpafb af mil writes in article c va r kk taurus cs nps navy mil stockel oahu oc nps navy mil jim stockel writes hi opps typed in the phone numbers wrong here are the correct numbers for a commerical package try wave from precision visua...
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iges viewer for dos windows anybody know of an iges viewer for dos windows i need to be able to display computervision iges files on a pc running windows thanks in advance brian h safford email bsaffo cad gmeds com electronic data systems phone note the views and opinions expressed herein are mine and do not reflect th...
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computer graphics to vcr help my friend and i have a class project in which we are trying to make a computer animated movie of sorts with the disney animation and would like to put what we have on a vcr is this possible is it easy and relatively cheap if so how we both have ibm compatibles but are relatively clueless w...
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stereoscopic imaging i am interested in any information on stereoscopic imaging on a sun workstation for the most part i need to know if there is any hardware available to interface the system and whether the refresh rates are sufficient to produce quality image representations any information about the subject would b...
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re fractals what good are they in article pdxgate uucp idr rigel cs pdx edu ian d romanick writes one thing a small change in initial conditions can cause a huge change in final conditions there are certain things about the way the plate tektoniks and volcanic activity effect a land scape that is while not entirely ran...
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complex i e with real and imaginary parts bio medical images are complex bio medical images available anywhere on the net for experimentation by complex i mean that every sampled data point has a magnitude and phase information both thanks for any pointers vishwa
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mpeg for ms dos does anyone know where i can ftp mpeg for dos from thanks for any help in advance email is preferred but posting is fine scott lord soth knight email to lordsoth uiuc of the black rose next to sas sumter cso uiuc edu i have no clue what i want to say in here so i won t say anything
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help i need a complete list of all the polygons that there are in order i ll summarize to the net if only i had been compiled with the g option
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re help colors display in c you ll probably have to set the palette up before you try drawing in the new colours use the bios interrupt calls to set the r g b values in the range from for most cards for a particular palette colour in the range from for colour modes then you should be able to draw pixels in those palett...
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re rumours about do stgprao st unocal com richard ottolini writes 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 do s but are ...
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re quicktime movie available in article johnsh mustang stu rpi edu i wrote i ve used the recently released macintosh application mpeg to quicktime to convert the excellent mpeg canyon mpg into a quicktime movie while anyone who would want this movie is perfectly able to convert it themselves i thought i d let the net k...
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qc msc code to view save images dear binary newsers i am looking for quick c or microsoft c code for image decoding from file for vga viewing and saving images from to gif tiff pcx or jpeg format i have scoured the internet but its like trying to find a dr seuss spell checker tsr it must be out there and there s no nee...
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autocad tiff can it be done 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 ...
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gamma law correction hi i am digitizing a ntsc signal and displaying on a pc video monitor it is known that the display response of tubes is non linear and is sometimes said to follow gamma law i am not certain if these non linearities are gamma corrected before encoding ntsc signals or if the tv display is supposed to...
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mpeg for x windows mono needed hello and thank you for reading this request i have a mpeg viewer for x windows and it did not run because i was running it on a monochrome monitor i need the mono driver for mpeg play please post the location of the file or better yet e mail me at mlee eng sdsu edu
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re thining algorithm in article q innmi shelley u washington edu kshin stein u washington edu kevin shin writes i am trying obtain program to preprocess handwriting characters like thining algorithm graph alogrithm do anyone know where i can obtain those i usually use algorithms for graphics and image processing by the...
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re tiff philosophical significance of in article apr galki toppoint de ulrich galki toppoint de writes according to the tiff specification the tiff version number bytes has been chosen for its deep philosophical significance last week i read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is this actually how they picked the numbe...
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re vga x graphics mode gchen essex ecn uoknor edu writes in article c doh ai constellation ecn uoknor edu greetings does anybody know if it is possible to set vga graphics mode to x instead of x any info is appreciated some vesa bios s support this mode x and any vga should be able to support this x by colors since it ...
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re weitek p abraxis iastate edu writes in article abraxis class iastate edu anyone know about the weitek p graphics chip micron is selling it with their systems they rank them at winmarks any info would help thanks it s supposedly a high performance chip based upon workstation graphics accelerators it s quite fast i ha...
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re delaunay triangulation in article lsk v inn c caspian usc edu zyeh caspian usc edu zhenghao yeh writes does anybody know what delaunay triangulation is is there any reference to it is it useful for creating d objects if yes what s the advantage it is used to create a tin triangulated irregular network which is basic...
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graphic formats i am writing some utilies to convert regis and tektonic esacpe sequences into some useful formats i would rather not have to goto a bitmap format i can convert them to window meta files easily enough but i would rather convert them to corel draw cdr or ms power point ppt files microsoft would not give m...
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re nice gif code there is a thing called xgif xgif is the grandfather of xv
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re rumours about do archer archer bad cop surly archer elysium esd sgi com archer how about interactive sex with madonna or sexium for short lars lars fischer fischer iesd auc dk it takes an uncommon mind to think of cs dept aalborg univ denmark these things calvin
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re forms for curses note the followup to header steelem rintintin colorado edu steele mark a writes is there a collection of forms routines that can be used with curses if so where is it located on my svr amiga unix box i ve got lform lmenu and lpanel for use with the curses library guess what they provide unix press i...
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re trying to view pov files merkelbd sage cc purdue edu brian merkel writes in article apr ornl gov ednobles sacam oren ortn edu edward d nobles writes i ve been trying to view tga files created in povray i have the diamond speedstar video board not the x so far i can convert them to jpeg using cjpeg and view them with...
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hot new d software there is a new product for the ibm ers out there it is called imagine and it just started shipping yesterday i can personally attest that it will blow the doors off of d studio it is made by impulse and is in its rd version st for the ibm it can do morphing your standard key framming animation it is ...
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re hot new d software in a previous article trb ra msstate edu tony r boutwell says there is a new product for the ibm ers out there it is called imagine and it just started shipping yesterday i can personally attest that it will blow the doors off of d studio it is made by impulse and is in its well i don t know about...
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re vga x graphics mode in article snx rjck uucp rob rjck uucp robert j c kyanko writes gchen essex ecn uoknor edu writes in article c doh ai constellation ecn uoknor edu greetings does anybody know if it is possible to set vga graphics mode to x instead of x any info is appreciated some vesa bios s support this mode x ...
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tin files coutours 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 hope...
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apr toronto siggraph event toronto siggraph what chance s art d graphics and animation on the indigo by ken evans imagicians artware inc when tuesday april pm pm where the mcluhan centre for culture and technology university of toronto a queen s park crescent toronto who members and non members alike non members encour...
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re delaunay triangulation zyeh caspian usc edu zhenghao yeh writes does anybody know what delaunay triangulation is is there any reference to it the delaunay triangulation is the geometrical dual of the voronoi tessellation and both constructions are derived from natural neighbor order aurenhammer f voronoi diagrams a ...
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ansi aiim ms standard image file format wing the suggestion of stu lynne i have posted the image file format executable and source code to alt sources herman silbiger
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re trying to view pov files in article apr ornl gov ednobles sacam oren ortn edu edward d nobles writes i ve been trying to view tga files created in povray i have the diamond speedstar video board not the x so far i can convert them to jpeg using cjpeg and view them with cview but that only displays bit color i m look...
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re looking for circle algorithm faster than bresenhams in article apr nwnexus wa com mpdillon halcyon com michael dillon writes i have an algorithm similar to bresenhams line drawing algorithm that draws a line by stepping along the minor axis and drawing slices like aaaa bbbb cccc in the following diagram aaaa bbbb cc...
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e mail of michael abrash
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fonts in pov i have seen several ray traced scenes from mtv or was it rayshade with stroked fonts appearing as objects in the image the fonts chars had color depth and even textures associated with them now i was wondering is it possible to do the same in pov thanks noel
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polygon reduction for marching cubes dear reader i am searching for an implementation of a polygon reduction algorithm for marching cubes surfaces i think the best one is the reduction algorithm from schroeder et al siggraph so is there any implementation of this algorithm it would be very nice if you could leave it to...
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dmpeg zip info another dos mpeg decoder player posted i have posted a dos mpeg decoder player to alt binaries pictures utilities here is a short description and some technical information taken from the accompanying documentation dmpeg v public domain mpeg decoder by stefan eckart features dmpeg dmplay is another mpeg ...
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point within a polygon 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
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pov reboots pc after memory upgrade up until last week i have been running povray v on my under dos without any major problems over easter i increased the memory from meg to meg and found that povray reboots the system every time under dos i had a go at running povray in a dos window when running win on the same system...
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good shareware paint and or animation software for sgi does anyone know of any good shareware animation or paint software for an sgi machine i ve exhausted everyplace on the net i can find and still don t hava a nice piece of software thanks alot chad knock knock chad cipiti who s there af cleveland freenet edu cipiti ...
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processing of stereo images i m interested in find out what is involved in processing pairs of stereo photographs i have black and white photos and would like to obtain surface contours i d prefer to do the processing on an sgi but would be interested in hearing what software hardware is used for this type of image pro...
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re weitek p robert j c kyanko rob rjck uucp wrote abraxis iastate edu writes in article abraxis class iastate edu anyone know about the weitek p graphics chip as far as the low level stuff goes it looks pretty nice it s got this quadrilateral fill command that requires just the four points do you have weitek s address ...
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sun os and bit ascii graphics i would like to know if anyone has had any luck using the upper ascii characters on a sun station i am trying to convert a fortran program to run on a sun when we write character buffers to the sun which contain char or char or char etc we get characters on the screen but they are not the ...
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re looking for circle algorithm faster than bresenhams on wed apr gmt graeme labtam labtam oz au graeme gill said graeme yes that s known as bresenhams run length slice algorithm for graeme incremental lines see fundamental algorithms for computer graphics graeme springer verlag berlin heidelberg i have tried to extrap...
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geometry package i am looking for a package which takes as inputs a set of geometric objects defined by unions of convex polytopes specified in some manner say by inequalities and equalities and determines in some reasonable form things like intersections unions etc etc does anyone know where i can find such a thing da...
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re point within a polygon in article apr uk bull co uk scrowe hemel bull co uk simon crowe 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 see the article an efficient ray polygon interse...
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re distance between two bezier curves pes hutcs cs hut fi pekka siltanen writes suppose two cubic bezier curves control points v v and w w which have equal first and last control points v w v w how do i get upper bound for distance between these curves which distance the distance between one point t ti on the first cur...
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re point within a polygon scrowe hemel bull co uk simon crowe 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 well it s been a while since this was discussed so i take the liberty of repr...
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re point within a polygon in article apr uk bull co uk scrowe hemel bull co uk simon crowe 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 basically there are two algorithms...
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re two pointing devices in one com port bob davis sonny trantor harris atd com wrote in article c tkgm v unix portal com wil shell portal com ville v walveranta writes is there any way to connect two pointing devices to one serial port i haven t tried this but i believe they would interfere with each other even if only...
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re fractals what good are they in article pdxgate uucp idr rigel cs pdx edu ian d romanick writes they talked about another routine that could yield up to to compress with no image loss that i could notice the draw back is that it takes a hell of a long time to compress something i ll have to see if i can find the book...
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re bgi drivers for svga dominic lai cs cylai cs ust hk wrote simon crowe scrowe hemel bull co uk wrote i require bgi drivers for super vga displays and super xvga displays does anyone know where i could obtain the relevant drivers ftp sites i would like to know too regards dominic garbo uwasa fi or one of its many mirr...
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re tiff philosophical significance of in article hc mentor cc purdue edu ab nova cc purdue edu allen b writes in article apr galki toppoint de ulrich galki toppoint de writes according to the tiff specification the tiff version number bytes has been chosen for its deep philosophical significance last week i read the hi...
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interleaf to cgm has anyone successfully converted interleaf graphics to cgm or even heard of it being done we d love to hear about it mike mcconnell emm cray com
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re hollywood hits virtual reality sorry i missed you raymond i was just out in dahlgren last month i m the virtual reality market manager for silicon graphics so perhaps i can help a little in article mar relay nswc navy mil rchui nswc wo nswc navy mil raymond chui writes hello the real reality our agency started to ex...
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re point within a polygon in article jonas y gouraud jonas y isy liu se jonas yngvesson writes intersection between a line and a polygon undecidable by dave baraff tom duff from deb charisma graphics cornell edu in recent years many geometric problems have been successfully modeled in a new language called postscript s...
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virtual reality for x on the cheap hi everyone i thought that some people may be interested in my vr software on these groups announcing the release of multiverse multiverse is a multi user non immersive x windows based virtual reality system primarily focused on entertainment research features client server based mode...
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re virtual reality for x on the cheap update on location directory should be public virtual worlds sorry robert robert acsc com
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pcx hello help please i am a student of turbo c and graphics programming and i am having some problems finding algorithms and code to teach me how to do some stuff where is there a book or code that will teach me how to read and write pcx dbf and gif files how do i access the extra ram on my paradise video board so i c...
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what s a good assembly vga programming book can someone give me the title of a good vga graphics programming book please respond by email thanks yuan che yuan wang cw uxa cso uiuc edu cywang ux cso uiuc edu
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re fractals what good are they in regards to fractal commpression i have seen fractal compressed movies they were both fairly impressive the first one was a gray scale movie of casablanca it was mb and had minutes of fps video it was a little grainy but not bad at all the second one i saw was only minutes but it had bi...
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re re vga x graphics mode my a vesa tsr supports this can you report crt and other register state in this mode thank s serge ivanov serge argus msk su
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reaction diffusion techniques this past week i ve been playing with some of the r d reaction diffusion not to be confused with rds or r d techniques from siggraph i was wondering what material is available to explain the control mechanism a little more it seems to me very much like a matter of picking random magic numb...
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bit graphics cards i am looking for eisa or vesa local bus graphic cards that support at least x x resolution i know matrox has one but it is very expensive all the other cards i know of that support that resoultion are striaght isa also are there any x servers for a unix pc that support bits thanks
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re fractal generation of clouds 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 ...
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please recommend d graphics library for mac hi netters i m building a cad package and need a d graphics library that can handle some rudimentry tasks such as hidden line removal shading animation etc can you please offer some recommendations i ll also need contact info name address email if you can find it thanks pleas...
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re hot new d software in article qflpk re usenet ins cwru edu mbc po cwru edu michael b comet wrote in a previous article trb ra msstate edu tony r boutwell says there is a new product for the ibm ers out there it is called imagine and it just started shipping yesterday i can personally attest that it will blow the doo...
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raytracers which is best hi all i ve just recently become seriously hooked on pov but there are a few thing that i want to do that pov won t do penumbral shadows dispersion etc i was just wondering what other shareware freeware raytracers are out there and what can they do i ve heard of vivid and polyray and rayshade a...
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shareware recently i saw the latest computer shopper and in it there was an article on nice shareware graphics programs they looked pretty good and of the listed in the article one i had graphics workshop one i found via archie draft choice old version though and the rest i couldn t find so if there is anyone that know...
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re please recommend d graphics library for mac robert g carpenter writes hi netters i m building a cad package and need a d graphics library that can handle some rudimentry tasks such as hidden line removal shading animation etc can you please offer some recommendations i ll also need contact info name address email if...
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thinning algorithm hi netters i am looking for source code that can reads the ascii file or bitmap file and produced the thinned image for example to preprocess the character image i want to apply thinning algorithm thanks kevin
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looking for autocad dxf file parser hello does anyone know of any c or c function libraries in the public domain that assist in parsing an autocad dxf file please e mail thanks jogle geigel seas gwu edu
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delaunay triangulation does anybody know what delaunay triangulation is is there any reference to it is it useful for creating d objects if yes what s the advantage thanks in advance yeh usc
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re cylinder and ray in article qc fginnbv darkstar ucsc edu koehler secs ucsc edu writes i would be most thrilled if some kind person could help me with the following given a cylinder in d defined as a line segment between two points and a radius e g sx sy sz to ex ey ez and r what is the easiest and not too expensive ...
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re crimson was kubota announcement in article bu edu kiki problem with inews gateway file keith baccki writes c lee lee obiwan rsg hac com wrote did you say dec alpha upgrade path from xx replace upgrade path from vax x to alpha replace the system not totally fair you haven t mentioned the decstation series i think if ...
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book of kells correction i aparantly mistyped the address for the ftp site which holds the images the correct address should be jupiter csd unb ca rather than jupiter csd unb edu they are in the directory pub library info jon williams university of northern iowa
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job job opportunity seri systems engineering research institute of kist korea institute of science and technology is looking for the resumes for the following position and need them by the end of june if you are interested send resumes to cad cae lab th floor systems engineering research institute korea institute of sc...
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chosing optimal colors for colormap hi i m looking for an algorithm that would generate a good cross section of rgb colours given a limited colour map size the problem i m writing an application for the pc that may have at most colors i want to use one colormap palette for the application but i d like it to contain an ...
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re siggraph srnelson speedsail eng sun com scott r nelson writes dave mikelson almac co uk dave mikelson writes does anyone know if there is an open day for the public at any time that is not to attend conferences but just browse around the exhibits or are the exhibits etc just for fully registered attendees was free a...
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d studio works changes hi guys like all people in this group i m a fans of fractal and render sw my favourite are fractint pov dstudio now listen my ideas i have just starting now to be able to use dstudio quite well so i m simulating a full animation of a f grand prix unfortanatly just some lap i m very interested abo...
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re rumours about do dave optimla aimla com dave ziedman writes do is still a concept the software is what sells and what will determine its success apparantly you dont keep up on the news do was shown at ces to developers and others at private showings over software licensees currently developing software for it i woul...
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re please recommend d graphics library for m in article g bcstec ca boeing com rgc bcstec ca boeing com robert g carpenter writes hi netters i m building a cad package and need a d graphics library that can handle some rudimentry tasks such as hidden line removal shading animation etc can you please offer some recommen...