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From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sun pictures to the Mac II
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 13:14:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 13:14:30 1987
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In article <17300002@symcom> wheeler@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU writes:
>Why are color pitures for the Mac II so scarce?  The only thing
>that I have found on a local BBS is a GrayView picture of 
>Cheryl Tiegs.  This is quite a let down from all the nice 
>ray tracing pictures you see demo'd on the Mac II when it
>is in the store.  But when you get it home all you get is
>that inane Tour (in B&W even!). 

Through the right (possibly illegal) connections you can get
copies of those ray traced and digitized images you see on Mac
II's in the stores.  But as the author of GrayView, I think
the B/W pictures are often superior. GrayView allows anyone
with a ThunderScan digitizer to have true 32 gray shade
photos.  And it's free..

Color digitizers are still insanely expensive, thus you find
few color photos on the II.  There is a program called Giffer
by Steve Blackstock that converts images from CompuServe's GIF
format for display in 256 colors.  Then you have access to
CompuServe's library of over 2000 color pictures.  They aren't
all super, but some are quite stunning.

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
Department of Mathematics		fry@harvma1.bitnet
Harvard University			...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138 9g