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From: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Ray Traced images (First impressions not too good)
Message-ID: <2018@videovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 19:09:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: videovax.2018
Posted: Thu Oct 23 19:09:14 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Oct-86 06:37:41 EDT
References: <532@elmgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix, Comm Group, TV R&D
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Summary: Don't give up too soon!

In article <532@elmgate.UUCP>, Jeff Gortatowsky (jdg@elmgate.UUCP) writes:

> Well after seeing all the oooo's  and ah's on the net about these zillions
> of bytes of image data I decided to give one a shot this weekend.  I 
> compiled display.c under Manx 3.20a running under 1.2B4 kickstart (the
> latest version I got).  All went well.  I downloaded 60 some odd thousand
> bytes of brick.img and got ready to be amazed.

> . . .

> I'm impressed.  60 some-odd k worth of data to generate an interlaced, HAM 
> blue-green square.  Not bad.  Would not it have been easier to use RectFill?

> . . .

> I'll try again tonight with wood.img.  If that doesn't work I'll try 1.1.
> If that doesn't work I'll rm -r the image files and assume, that the only
> wood around is in my head (as usual) and not in an image file.

Don't give up too soon!  I managed to compile it with V3.03 of the Lattice
compiler (thanks to Matt Dillon's hints) under kickstart V1.1.  It displays
images with a real feeling of depth.  I was able to display brick.img,
dec.img, focus.img, glass.img, wood.img, and one or two others whose names
I can't recall.

Special thanks to Dave Wecker for more Amiga fun!

					Steve Rice

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