Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!iroquois.cis.ohio-state.edu!ray From: ray@iroquois.cis.ohio-state.edu (william c ray) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Prodigy - Naplps Keywords: prodigy naplps Message-ID: <54555@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 Jul 89 20:01:18 GMT References: <[107]naplps@oldcolo.UUCP> <195@oldcolo.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: william c ray Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 36 In article <195@oldcolo.UUCP> dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes: > > My previous request did not include my signature. Not sure it went >out with pathway back to me correctly. gee this has a whole H*LL of a lot to do with graphics, now dosent it? query, apparently some have worked on getting the DBW raytracer to work on suns... I have a version for the macintosh II, with which I am having some trouble. the program as it sits generates 4bits/color (I think). I have checked what it actually is giving, and on 'glass' I get a whopping total of 39 distinct colors... why is it doing this? I am running a supermac monitor, w/256 colors out of 16million, so whats the problem? next query, I upped the bits per color to 8, just for the hell of it, and actualy got less colors in my output... guesses? (disclaimer, Im not that sure how the mac color routines work anyway... I cant afford Inside Macintosh) BTW, if anyone is interested, I modified the mac version to generate any sized screen image desired, and will post the mods if anyone out there who has tried to enlarge the window, and run into lightspeeds 32K limit is interested... (actually, I think it wont generate more than about 700 lines of vertical resolution, but thats sufficient for most of us big screeners) > >-- >Dave Hughes Old Colorado City Communications >"It is better to light one screen than cursor the darkness" >hp-lsd!oldcolo!dave > Bill Robinson Oh, gee, now I see what was worth wasting 6 or so messages worth of bandwidth....