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From: phillips@grads.cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: GIF to SGI...?
Message-ID: <4858@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 23:38:23 GMT
References: <56867@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
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Reply-To: phillips@cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Keywords: gif, images
Summary: I have such a beast

In article <56867@aerospace.AERO.ORG> louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald) writes:
>Does anyone have a GIF2SGI program so I can display some
>GIF images on the screen? I have gif2ps (postscript), and
>would prefer not re-inventing the wheel...
>
>Louis McDonald

I wrote a program called igif which will display GIF images on a personal
iris *.  It uses 24 bit RGB mode, so I suspect that greatly limits what
SGI machines it will run on.  Someone more familiar with graphics programming
could probably easily change it to use a colour mapped mode (GIF files are
pretty much limited to 256 colours).

Send me mail if you're intested in getting this program and I'll either mail
you a copy (it's about 23K) or post it here (if there is enough interest 
and if posting code here is acceptable).

While I'm on the subject, I've also written a program to display the 24 bit
RGB images found on venera.isi.edu.  It's < 5K and I'm willing to share it too.

* In fact, I used someone else's decoder and wrote the interface bits myself.

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George Phillips phillips@cs.ubc.ca {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!phillips