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From: ofer@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Ofer Licht)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: DBW X viewer and modeler?
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Date: 24 Sep 89 00:42:00 GMT
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In article <19702@unix.cis.pitt.edu> cmf@obie.cis.pitt.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser) writes:
>If I'm not mistaken, the FBM stuff already knows how to deal with IFF
>files, which is what the output of ray2 is.  If you try to run ray2
>on a little-endian machine (like VAX's and stuff), you'll need to fix
>ray2.c to use the correct byte order for writing out integers.  Just
>find all the places where it does fwrite()'s of wrd or lng, and change
>them to use new routines which always write out the integers in
>big-endian format.
>
>I've been quite impressed with the output of DBW. 
>
>				Carl Fongheiser
>				cmf@unix.cis.pitt.edu


I've already done the (minor) port of DBW (back) to vax/sun machines.
you can grab it off of xanth.cs.odu.edu by anonymous ftp in the amiga
directory.  There are also hooks for distributed processing--grab
distpro.zoo from the same place.

Ofer Licht
ofer@gandalf.berkeley.edu


(NOTE: the updated dbw still produces IFF files as the end result.)