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From: spencer@well.UUCP (Randal Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: ray tracing pics.
Message-ID: <1909@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 06:26:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 06:26:44 1986
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In article <93500045@convex>, danny@convex.UUCP writes:
> 
> 
> I agree that those are the most amazing pictures yet on the Amiga but...
> GLASS.IMG seems cut off in the middle  - we also got two - yes two of
> them here and in the titles, one had an extra '1' at the front of the
> size...  Needless to say, they were both the same minus a few chars.
> 
> When DISPLAYing GLASS.IMG, after nearly halfway down the screen, it stopped
> after about the first third of the line.  Has anybody else had this
> bug/feature?  Could someone re-post it or mail me?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Also, could the author of display post his code to generate those pics
> so some of us could have a hand at generating our own?  (I don't have
> a clue how that stuff was made and source would help - so would the title
> of a good book)
> 
> Dan Wallach                     {wherever}!ihnp4!convex!danny

No, you see, Brick has all that open blue space and Dec has less detail
that glass, so both of these files had compression to save space, Glass
had just too much detail to send in one posting, so the file was split in
the middle and when you get them on your machine you are supposed to join
them ("join", it's a CLI command... ever heard of it, I never used it before)

Recommendation:  Get a Ram expansion and do the join to a ram file, on
disk it is painful. I don't really know if you would need a ram exp.

It would be nice to see info on how these were made, Mike Meyer here at
UCB was saying how nice it would be to get the sources and start devoting
Vaxen to them for the weekends.

If I have got Daves attention I just would like to say, what with the pics,
VT100, shar, and the rest, I do feel like making a programming contribution,
maybe shareware is the way to go.  

I hope that I didn't credit programs that you didn't write, and I hope that
I mentioned the big ones you did, but I am a vegatable at 3 am when I have
to be at work at 8 am.

Matt,  If all the icons were in one file, wouldn't that adversely affect 
being able to move files around from CLI.  Like, here is MicroGnuEmacs and
it's info file MicroGnuEmacs.info.  Well if I am at the 

1> 

prompt (or the %, or the new $ for Manx users) and I build a subdirectory
with makedir emacs.  And I want to put MicroGnuEmacs there, I can now say:

% mv M* emacs

and all the programs that begin with M go there, but if the icons are locked
in a chunk I have to get out my icon editor or I have to loadwb.  It just
seems to me that your plan is from a man who likes Unix, and would like to
see all that Intuition stuff put out of the way where you don't have to fool
with it (and it would be faster for those icon users).  I like it the way it
is now, however I would like to know how Amicus disk #9 (or so) comes up so
fast (swish-BAM).

Oh, have you thought about incorporating your term program with vt100?
Giving vt100, and kermit facilities on a requestor driven term prog that
has asyncronious disk writes so that it never slows or pauses.  I'd like
to hear.

Gotta go,

Randy Spencer
Unemployed Dec or Micro Consultant

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