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From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: CGM >> something viewable on pc?
Message-ID: <25338.26d30944@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 90 03:37:56 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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I collaborate with scientists at other institutions, and would like to
have some way of sharing color graphical images with them.  The CGM files
are made using NCAR Graphics 3.00 on a Silicon Graphics 4D/25g.  My
collaborators don't have IRISes (or comparable workstations), but they
do have PC's.

There is little chance that we can afford a color hardcopy device in the
foreseeable future (other than taking a photograph of the screen...)
So my question is, can anyone suggest some way of converting the metacode
files so they can be viewed on a PC using common (cheap or free) tools?
Something like .GIF files is what I had in mind.  I could then ftp the
files to them, or mail floppy disks.

Thanks for whatever suggestions you can provide.
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Raymond  W.  Arritt               | 
Assistant Professor               |
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy    |
Univ. of Kansas                   |
Lawrence, KS  66045               |
arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu         |
arritt@ukanvax.bitnet             |