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re sources for shading wanted in article r ih innldi irau ira uka de s braun irav ira uka de thomas braun writes i m looking for shading methods and algorithms please let me know if you know where to get source codes for that illumination and color in computer generated imagery by roy hall contains c source for several...
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re cview answers cyberspace buddha cb wixer bga com wrote renew blade stack urc tue nl rene walter writes over where it places its temp files it just places them in its current directory i have to beg to differ on this point as the batch file i use to launch cview cd s to the dir where cview resides and then invokes it...
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re newsgroup split i haven t been following this thread so appologies if this has already been mentioned but how about comp graphics d kaveh kardan kardank ere umontreal ca
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re fast wireframe graphics in article c tk u c t cs columbia edu ykim cs columbia edu yong su kim writes i am working on a program to display d wireframe models with the user being able to arbitrarily change any of the viewing parameters also the wireframe objects are also going to have dynamic attributes so that they ...
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re detecting double points in bezier curves in article almaden ibm com capelli vnet ibm com ron capelli writes in ia b w w 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 ge...
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re tiff philosophical significance of in c scgu ll mentor cc purdue edu ab nova cc purdue edu allen b writes i ve got the spec obviously since i quoted it in my last posting my gripe about tiff is that it s far too complicated and nearly infinitely easier to write than to read why not use the pd c library for reading w...
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diamond stelth any good i am in the market for a bit graphics card for a pc isa bus and was wondering if anyone had any comments good bad otherwise regarding the diamond stealth
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re trying to view pov files edward d nobles ednobles sacam oren ortn edu wrote 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 just want to see the darn things ...
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ati gup and graphics wkshop win i have an ati graph ultra pro vlb w megs and have a small question about graphics workshop for windows when i exit from it it says my current driver can handle on colors when i am actually in x x color mode is this a driver problem a gws error or what i am using the driver under win it c...
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re photoshop for windows in article c uhim jfq rot qc ca beaver rot qc ca andre boivert writes i am looking for comments from people who have used heard about photoshop for windows is it good how does it compare to the mac version is there a lot of bugs i heard the windows version needs fine tuning any comments would b...
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targa format text file does anyone know how to convert a targa or similar bit picture into a list of r g b values and then convert back to targa after doing operations on the p ixels r g b codes ex targa pixel pixel etc if no one can help me with this could someone explain how the bit data is st ored in the targa file ...
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call for presentations navy sciviz vr seminar nd call for presentations navy scientific visualization and virtual reality seminar tuesday june carderock division naval surface warfare center formerly the david taylor research center bethesda maryland sponsor ness navy engineering software system is sponsoring a one day...
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re newsgroup split concerning the proposed newsgroup split i personally am not in favor of doing this i learn an awful lot about all aspects of graphics by reading this group from code to hardware to algorithms i just think making different groups out of this is a wate and will only result in a few posts a week per gro...
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jpeg file format where could i find a description of the jpg file format specifically i need to know where in a jpg file i can find the height and width of the image and perhaps even the number of colors being used any suggestions peter uucp peterbak microsoft is this all that i am is there compuserve nothing more v ge...
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re please recommend d graphics library for mac in article john shepardson esh moose slac stanford edu john shepardson esh qmail slac stanford edu john shepardson writes can you please offer some recommendations d graphics there has been a fantastic d programmers package for some years that has been little advertised an...
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looking for mr radon does anyone have a radon transform in c that they could send me any help accepted for a lot of au music ftp sounds sdsu edu then cat file au dev audio ub library catalog telnet bison acsu buffalo edu when in doubt ask xarchie xgopher or xwais
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re ray tracer for ms dos in article r cqiinnje srvr engin umich edu tdawson llullaillaco engin umich edu chris herringshaw writes sorry for the repeat of this request but does anyone know of a good free shareware program with which i can create ray traces and save them as bit mapped files of course if there is such a t...
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re color pict of spinning earth estop conrad appstate edu acs writes sorry if this is the wrong place to post this i was crusing the net earlier this year and came upon something called color pict of spinning earth i am assuming it is a animation sequence of the earth s rotation or revolution i always get those mixed u...
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cornerstone dualpage driver wanted i am looking for a window driver for cornerstone dualpage cornerstone technology inc video card does anybody know that has these is there one thanks for any info to nis to nis kelder estonian biocentre tkelder kask ebc ee
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re newsgroup split in article fox apr graphics nyu edu fox graphics cs nyu edu david fox writes concerning the proposed newsgroup split i personally am not in favor of doing this i learn an awful lot about all aspects of graphics by reading this group from code to hardware to algorithms i just think making different gr...
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re scf files help needed tlc cx com writes second problem i can t find any graphics program that will open and display these files i have a couple of image conversion programs none mention scf files rix s files with the extension sci and scf are just a raw file with a color palette the first bytes is a kind of header w...
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conversion of pic format files to hpgl files hello can anybody help me with the conversion of pic format files to hpgl files the question is as follows is it possible to convert files that have been generated in the pic preprocessor format into hpgl format suitable for sending to a plotter the hardware involved is ibm ...
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hijaak i have heard some impressive things about hijakk for windows currently i use a shareware program called graphics workshop what kinds of things will hijaak do that these shareware programs will not do what has been your experience with hijaak are there other programs that are better please email me if you can hel...
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re graphics libraries does anyone out there have any experience with figaro form tgs or hoops from ithaca software i would appreciate any comments yes i do a couple of years ago i did a comparison of the two products some of this may have changed but here goes as far as a phigs implementation figaro is fine but its phi...
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canon copier printer postscript questions printer model and specification canon clc color laser copier ps ipu unit postscript intelligent processing unit hello we have recently purchased a very expensive and nice color copier printer we want to be able to print to it from our sgi iris network the copier printer has bot...
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ray tracing pictures for those who are interested in ray traced pictures there is a nice example on alt binaries pictures misc the file is called poolball gif it shows a pooltable with yes poolballs resolution x colours only the tga bit version is also available but a bit big mb to post the picture is created with pov ...
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re tiff philosophical significance of ulrich galki toppoint de wrote does anyone have any other suggestions where the came from forty two is six times nine
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d display software i have the need for displaying d surfaces under x using only xlib xt and xm does anyone know of a package available on internet which will be able to do the work i am looking for a stand alone package providing similar functions to xprism available with khoros but without the numerous libraries requi...
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re looking for wmf converter buck hq ileaf com david buchholz x writes i m looking for any leads to the source of a good windows meta file converter or interpreter i need this for use outside the windows environment pd sources preferred but not a requirement please reply to the address below on a related topic i have b...
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re tiff philosophical significance of silly mark a cartwright markc emx utexas edu wrote well is binary and who would forget that its the answer to the question of life the universe and everything else that is to quote douglas adams in a round about way of course the question has not yet been discovered but it was disc...
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wanted matrox pg cv driver hi i need a windows driver for the matrox pg cv svga card at the moment windows runs only in the x mode if you have a driver for this card please send it with the oemsetup inf to bockamp informatik tu muenchen de thanks florian bockamp bockamp informatik tu muenchen de o o ooo ooo it s not a ...
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fixed point math library has anyone written or seen a c library or c class for fixed point math or good articles about same i pretty much know how to do this but i have a few other wheels to invent at the moment thanks how am i typing call jack robotics jpl nasa gov jack morrison jet propulsion lab ms oak grove dr pasa...
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needed algorithms for d d object recognition hi i have a friend who is working on d and d object recognition he is looking for references describing algorithms on the following subject areas thresholding edge segmentation marr hildreth sobel operator chain codes thinning skeletonising if anybody is willing to post an a...
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re hijaak haston donald wayne haston utkvx utk edu wrote currently i use a shareware program called graphics workshop what kinds of things will hijaak do that these shareware programs will not do i also use graphic workshop and the only differences that i know of are that hijaak has screen capture capabilities and acn ...
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adobe photo shop type software for unix x motif platforms hello i have been searching for a quality image enhancement and manipulation package for unix x motif platforms that is comparable to adobe photo shop for the mac i have not been able to find any and would appreciate any information about such products you could...
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re tiff philosophical significance of in article prestonm cs man ac uk prestonm cs man ac uk martin preston writes why not use the pd c library for reading writing tiff files it took me a good minutes to start using them in your own app i certainly do use it whenever i have to do tiff and it usually works very well tha...
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marching cubs hello hello i was wondering if anyone knew of a pc or mac implementation of the marching cubes algorithm that will output the individual faces if there is no such application might there be some c source code that i could modify to implement the algorithm and get to the individual faces thanks in advance ...
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epson hpgl pen plotter w pens b o greetings i have an epson hi pen plotter forsale it emulates an hp or i m not sure which it has an option board on it that does the emulation it has a serial interface with hardware handshake i also have pens for it as follows packs of black oil based packs of red green blue and black ...
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re tiff philosophical significance of silly mark wilson mark ocsmd ocs com wrote mark a cartwright markc emx utexas edu wrote is 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 q...
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re sphere from points there is another useful method based on least sqyares estimation of the sphere equation parameters the points x y z on a spherical surface with radius r and center a b c can be written as x a y b z c r this equation can be rewritten into the following form ax by cz r a b c x y z approximate the le...
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polygon fill routine needed hi i am looking for a polygon fill routine to fill simple sided polygons can some one who has this routine in c help me in saving my reinventing time thanx in advance rao
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disney animation can anyone tell me anything about the disney animation software package note the followup line this is not for me but for a colleague
942
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re rumours about do read issue of wired magazine it has a long article on the hype of do 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 kirk membry our age is the age of industry rutgers viamar kmembry a...
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re d studio v any differences with previous version fombaron marc fombaron ufrima imag fr wrote are there significant differences between v and v thank you for helping no as i recall the only differences are in the ds set parameters some of the defaults have changed slightly i ll look when i get home and let you know b...
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re cview answers ray knight rknight stiatl salestech com wrote uk nx mik uky edu bryan k williams writes re majority of users not readding from floppy well how about those of us who have picture cd roms and would like to use cview because it is fast and it works well but can t because the moron lacked the foresight to ...
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re tiff philosophical significance of martin preston prestonm cs man ac uk wrote in c scgu ll mentor cc purdue edu ab nova cc purdue edu allen b writes i ve got the spec obviously since i quoted it in my last posting my gripe about tiff is that it s far too complicated and nearly infinitely easier to write than to read...
946
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need info on cc mail file format i need the file format for cc mail file formats it seems to be pcx based but with a twist only the first page of a multi page fax will come out readable the other pages disappear the format seems to be proprietary anybody got any clues i have to give my email faxes to my secretary in or...
947
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medical images via gopher 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 mark morley unix sun manager net morley camosun bc ca camosun college interurban campus tel interurban road r...
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morphing keywords i am looking for some morphing programs for dec s or pc s i looked for a program called dmorph using archie but could not find it i found a progrmam call morpho but it only did grayscale images does anyone know where i should look
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graphics driver standards i have a researcher who collecting electical impulses from the human heart through a complex analog to digital system he has designed and inputting this information into his eisa bus hp vectra computer running dos and the phar lap dos extender he want to purchase a very high performance video ...
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re tiff philosophical significance of silly in article r lf fu geraldo cc utexas edu mark a cartwright markc emx utexas edu writes well is binary and who would forget that its the answer to the question of life the universe and everything else that is to quote douglas adams in a round about way of course the question h...
951
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d animation station i am looking for some information about d animation stations that are currently on the market the price of the station can be from k k but no more than type of workstation doesnt matter pc mac sgi etc if you use or have bought looked at one or can suggest your dream machine then please mail me your ...
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xlib and bit displays info needed hi my name is rahul and i am doing ms at usu logan my query is i have a hp workstation hp series with x running on it i have a true color bit color monitor connected to this machine normally i have the capability to display colors from a max of million since the monitor is true color i...
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tiff anything are there any tiff to anything programs out there for the ibm our scanner works into tiff and i can view it on cshow but all of my other programs read errors are there any basic tiff to jpeg gif pcx bmp etc thanks for the time email or post acceptable joshuaf that geiger scan looks like dookie i know it s...
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imagine for pc is impulse shipping imagine for the pc how close is it to the amiga s imagine in terms of features roland chia air cooled email kruzifix netcom com free falling voice carbon unit
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screen capture cymk converter i have a small program to extract a x image from a vga color screen and store that image in a tiff file i need to insert the image into a sales brochure which i then need printed in color on a mac i would use photoshop to separate the image into eps files and then pull it into quark expres...
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hp xx for dos is there a precompiled version of hp xx for dos out there prefereably for
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re virtual reality for x on the cheap in article apr mfltd co uk sts mfltd co uk steve sherwood x writes has anyone got multiverse to work i have built it on svr mips svr s and sun sparcstation there seems to be many bugs in it the dogfight and dactyl simply do nothing after fixing a bug where a variable is defined twi...
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d animation studio file format is the ds file format for autodesk s d animation studio available thanks gary please respond by email i have a hell of a time keeping up with news
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re ray tracer for ms dos in article r cqiinnje srvr engin umich edu tdawson llullaillaco engin umich edu chris herringshaw wrote sorry for the repeat of this request but does anyone know of a good free shareware program with which i can create ray traces and save them as bit mapped files of course if there is such a th...
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sigkids research showcase call sigkids call for participation sigkids research showcase is where learning is hip pushing the edge in education computer graphics and new technologies the sigkids research showcase will provide siggraph s attendees with the latest in applying computer technology to form state of the art e...
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wanted playmation info 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 if you have moved onto something bigger ds or better imagine i d love to buy your table scraps if noone is selling can anyone recommend a place to buy playmation mail order fo...
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re marching cubs i saw this subject and all i could think of was a parade at wrigley field in chicago or maybe it s just me marc cooper graphics programmer sverdrup tech as a child i was an fsmarc lerc nasa gov imaginary playmate nasa lewis research center ms brookpark dr tom robbins cleveland oh even cowgirls get the ...
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pov file constructor for unix x hi i m just getting into povray and i was wondering if there is a graphic package that outputs pov files any help would be appreciated thanks later ish craig i didn t do it nobody saw me do it you can t prove anything ccc c ccc c chumphre comp vuw ac nz
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re more on radiosity amann iam unibe ch stephan amann writes in article yuma acns colostate edu xz longs lance colostate edu xia zhao writes in article apr aragorn unibe ch you write let s be serious i m working on a radiosity package written in c i would like to make it public domain i ll announce it in c g the minute...
965
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finding equally spaced points on a sphere hello i know that this has been discussed before but at the time i didn t need to teselate a sphere so if any kind soul has the code or the alg that was finally decided upon as the best as i recall it was a nice iterative subdivision meathod i would be very appreciative thomas ...
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re grayscale printer have you considered the apple laserwriter iig we use it for all our b w image printing
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help advice on what video system to buy if this question is covered elsewhere i apologize but i need information fast my department has been given a large sum of money to install a video system on our network of ibm rs workstations this is not an area in which i have any expertise so i wonder if anyone out there can of...
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re tiff anything there is a program called graphic workshop you can ftp from wuarchive the file is in the msdos graphics directory and is called grfwk t zip this program should od everthing you need tmc tmc spartan ac brocku ca
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re sun ipx root window display background picture in article apr osi com scott osi com scott fleming writes hello netters i have a fairly weak question to ask everybody in netland i ve looked though the last faq for comp graphics but i didn t find my answer thus the post i ll keep it short question how do i display any...
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re detecting double points in bezier curves renner adobe com john renner writes in article almaden ibm com capelli vnet ibm com ron ca in ia b w w 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 st...
971
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dregistere xv for ms dos pascal perret in article apr eicn etna ch wrote site omnigate clarkson edu aliases grape ecs clarkson edu number pub msdos djgpp pub it s xv zip i think certainly you read the other answer from kevin martin he write about dv x what is it could someone answer funny thing the internet i have no i...
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re looking for tseng vesa drivers hi this is my first msg to the net actually the rd copy of it dam ed vi look for the new vpic it comes with updated vesa drivers for almost every known card the vesa level is and my tseng bit has a nice affair with the driver hope it is useful bye
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i need to make my vga do shades i have a routine that changes the color rgb attributes on my vga adapter but it doesn t work in the mode that i need specifically hex an obscure mode of course but i need to change the zillions of colors to shade greyscale but i do not have the correct memory address for the pointer i ne...
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re photoshop for windows in article apr midway uchicago edu dgf quads uchicago edu david farley writes in article c uhim jfq rot qc ca beaver rot qc ca andre boivert writes i am looking for comments from people who have used heard about photoshop for windows is it good how does it compare to the mac version is there a ...
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re d studio v any differences with previous version in article apr hparc aus hp com doug hparc aus hp com doug parsons writes fombaron marc fombaron ufrima imag fr wrote are there significant differences between v and v thank you for helping no as i recall the only differences are in the ds set parameters some of the d...
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true color display in pov hallo pov renderers i ve got a bocax card now i try to get pov displaying true colors while rendering i ve tried most of the options and univesa driver but what happens isn t correct can anybody help me
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fractal compression hi can anybody give me book or reference title to give me a start at fractal image compression technique helps will be appreciated thanx inu n lindblat cc monash edu au inu n aurora cc monash edu au
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developable surface hi netters i am currently doing some investigations on developable surface can anyone familiar with this topic give me some information or sources which can allow me to find some infomation of developable surface thanks for your help abel h hkuxa hku hk
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re virtual reality for x on the cheap in article r v a rj fg plk af mil ridout bink plk af mil brian s ridout writes in article apr mfltd co uk sts mfltd co uk steve sherwood x writes has anyone got multiverse to work i have built it on svr mips svr s and sun sparcstation there seems to be many bugs in it the dogfight ...
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alias phone number wanted what is the phone number for alias a toll free number is preferred if available thanks charles boesel diablo creative if pro for and con against cboesel diablo uu holonet net then what s the opposite of progress pager what else congress
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re postscript drawing prog in article apr informatik tu muenchen de comp graphics gnuplot comp graphics rdd uts ipp garching mpg de reinhard drube writes in article c ecnn qo mentor cc purdue edu nish cv chem purdue edu nishantha i writes could somebody let me know of a drawing utility that can be used to manipulate po...
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why does illustrator autotrace so poorly i ve been trying to figure out a way to get adobe illustrator to auto trace exactly what i see on my screen but it misses the edges of templates by as many as pixels or more resulting in images that are useless i need exact tracing not approximate i ve tried adjusting the freeha...
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marchin cubes hi there is there anybody who know a polygon reduction algorithm for marching cube surfaces e g the algirithm of schroeder siggraph for any hints hugs and kisses erwin o o ooo ooo erwin keeve adress peter welter platz w cologne germany dept of computergraphics phone computeranimation fax academy of media ...
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disp i have posted disp zip to alt binaries pictures utilities you may distribute this program freely for non commercial use if no fee is gained there is no warranty the author is not responsible for any damage caused by this program important changes since version fix bugs in file management system file displaying imp...
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re pov file constructor for unix x in article r hl csc st james comp vuw ac nz craig humphrey comp vuw ac nz chumphre writes hi i m just getting into povray and i was wondering if there is a graphic package that outputs pov files any help would be appreciated thanks a very good modeling package i found is irit look for...
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which video card please help i ve got a hz computer which is under warranty and my trident c video card is starting to play up surprise surprise therefore i m going to try to exchange it for a better card the big question is which video card is high quality and with an acceptable price tag on student budget thank you i...
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re fast polygon routine needed for some reason i never saw the original post on this thread but if you are looking for fast polygon routines on vga on a pc you really can t go past the mode x stuff from dr dobbs this code is all p domain as far as i know and in the original articles the routines were all presented as d...
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re postscript drawing prog in b vma o diablo uucp diablo uucp cboesel charles boesel writes in article apr informatik tu muenchen de comp graphics gnuplot comp graphics rdd uts ipp garching mpg de reinhard drube writes in article c ecnn qo mentor cc purdue edu nish cv chem purdue edu nishantha i writes could somebody l...
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any good morphing anims has anyone created any interesting animations using dmorph i seem to be unable to create anything that looks remotely realistic although this is probably due to the crappy gif s at i am using one of captain kirk and one of spock i m a bit of a trekker what are the best type of pictures to use th...
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dtp please ineed information about desk top publishe post graduate courses and if possible email address or normal mail thanks in advance
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re diamond stelth any good i bought the diamond stealth a few months ago it seems to be a great card especially with my multimedia presentations it runs graphics and animation as well as some near full motion video very well the only thing i can tell that it lacks is speed above colors its qualit in between and million...
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gif aerial maps is there an ftp site for maps of the us preferably aerial photographs thanks
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hidden line removal program i m posting this for a friend i have an immediate need for a polygon based hidden line removal program i can deal with any input output format but i need to be able to do perspective views in any orientation and range is there a public domain hidden line program around it seems like there sh...
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sphinx satellite image processing under x sphinx sphinx is a user friendly state of the art image processing and analysis package that runs across a spectrum of high performance computer platforms operating unix and the x window system it was created to meet to the daily research needs of scientists conducting climate ...
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re diamond stelth any good the real problem w the stealth from what i ve heard is that diamond won t tell anyone how to program their proprietary clock stuff so x under linux and bsd won t run patrick bridges patrick erc msstate edu
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re photoshop for windows in article r m k agate berkeley edu aron tikal ced berkeley edu aron bonar writes in article apr midway uchicago edu dgf quads uchicago edu david farley writes in article c uhim jfq rot qc ca beaver rot qc ca andre boivert writes i am looking for comments from people who have used heard about p...
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re why does illustrator autotrace so poorly in article b vmcbrt diablo uucp diablo uucp cboesel charles boesel writes i ve been trying to figure out a way to get adobe illustrator to auto trace exactly what i see on my screen but it misses the edges of templates by as many as pixels or more resulting in images that are...
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rayshade query hi there i am very interested in rayshade i have managed to make a chessboard for rayshade unfortunately i still have to do the knight horse any ideas 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 n...
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interviews graphics package hello i m trying out the c graphics package interviews besides the man pages on the classes i haven t got any documentation is there anything else around furthermore can anyone send me a small example program which shows how to use these classes together i would be very gratefull