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From: pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Improvement to Ray Tracer
Message-ID: <779@loligo.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 89 20:59:35 GMT
References: <29591@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: pepke@loligo.UUCP (Eric Pepke)
Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
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I have written a program to display MTV ray tracer files of any size on a 
color Macintosh II in color using Paul Heckbert's median cut algorithm.  
It can save the resulting images and their palettes as NCSA Image files.  
It is still fairly primitive, but it works, and I have used it to produce 
several stills and one animation.  In most cases, the output is hard to
distinguish from full 24-bit RGB.

Some day I will distribute this widely, but right now I need beta testers.
If you are interested in beta testing this program or you have a favorite
RGB image file format that you would like to be able to read, send me
mail one of the addresses below.  Do not 'r'eply to this message; I might
never get the reply.

Eric Pepke                                     INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute  MFENET:   pepke@fsu
Florida State University                       SPAN:     scri::pepke
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052                     BITNET:   pepke@fsu

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