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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Change of name? (was: Re: RFD:  comp.graphics.research)
Message-ID: <10548@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 25 May 91 19:41:51 GMT
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In article <ADRIANHO.91May24235052@barkley.berkeley.edu> adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) writes:
>Charter: This newsgroup is a forum for the discussion of graphics
>         programming issues, techniques and specifics (ie. questions
>         on flood fill techniques are acceptable, requests for an
>         XYZ->ABC graphics file format convertor are not).

I'd like to see a tighter charter, to exclude questions like "How do I
implement double buffering on a VGA display?"  In other words, I think
that questions specific to a given platform should be excluded.

I'd like to know what people think about these questions, on a rough
scale from bad to good:

"Anyone got any GOOD gifs, I mean GOOD gifs?"

"How do I convert GIFs to Postscript files?"

"What's the format of GIFs anyway?  I'm writing a program that
produces/reads them."

"How do I do double buffering on a VGA display?"

"Anyone got C code that implements a BSD tree?"

"Shouldn't there be an 'Uglyness' field in Renderman?"

"How do I check if a ray intersects a height field without waiting two years?"

"I've just worked out an algorithm for radiosity that makes it fast
enough to do in real time on an XT."
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