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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Needs Ideas for a Graphics Project
Message-ID: <14086@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 07:01:13 GMT
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Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
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+-- gilchrid@dvinci.usask.ca (Darren Gilchrist) writes:
  [ needs a graphics project for a class ... ]
| areas of computer graphics.  But I have only 2 months to do this project.
| Thus the project cannot be too large or time consuming.
| 
| Two ideas that I have thought of are a graphics editor or something involving
| photorealistic rendering (ie. raytracing or 3-D modelling).

Photorealistic rendering in a two month school project?  3D-modeling is
also a fairly large task, I'm afraid to report.  

| Any area of computer graphics where a innovative project
| could done and maybe promote the almighty AMIGA?  How conversion of bitmap
| graphics to structure graphics?

Nahh, been done...

| Or creating a new IFF format for structured
| graphics and PostScript?  

Bingo!  We have a winner!  Spec out an IFF structured graphics format
(perhaps based loosly on PostScript), and write a simple drawing program
that reads, writes and edits them.  Also write a dumb viewer to let
you view the files in any resolution and a program to convert them
to PostScript.  If you're really ambitious, package up the routines
in a shared library.  Release it all into the public domain and let
nature take its course.  :-)

| I would like expression my thanks for any help.  I post here because the
| AMIGA community tends to be innovative and creative bunch of people.

If you could create a structured graphic IFF format, and code that
developers could use to read and display it, you would be doing an
invaluable service.  If it was a good standard, you'd be a hero.

I have some ideas on the subject that you're welcome to take and
steal, use as a starting place or ignore.  Send mail if interested.
-- 
		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
		Action by HAVOC		(ferguson@metaphor.com)