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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: MTV raytracer and Eric Haines test nff files
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Date: 23 Aug 89 19:39:21 GMT
References: <561@celit.UUCP> <10046@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <10046@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> markv@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mark T Vandewettering) writes:
>In article <561@celit.UUCP> I wrote:
[problems sending mail to Mark V]

>I never received any mail from you.

I kind of suspected that.  It was several months ago though so I
wouldn't expect you to remember it if you had.

[good news about fixes he's going to post]

>There must be renewed interest in my raytracer after Siggraph :-)

Actually, I haven't touched it for months but I've been trying to
write a generalized color quantizer that reads and writes several
formats with dithering (24 bit's to n bits where 24 >= n >= 1. (Jef
P. when do we get COLOR PBM? :-).  I was inspired into this project
by the raytracer.  I've been using Eric's nff files raytraced with
Mark's raytracer as test images.  I printed several on our imagen
laser printer and everyone who looks at them comments about the
distortion so I decided to try to get an answer on it again.

--Bill