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From: markv@uoregon.uoregon.edu (Mark VandeWettering)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: MTV RayTracer -- How To Get
Message-ID: <2977@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 88 06:08:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: uoregon.2977
Reply-To: markv@drizzle.UUCP (Mark VandeWettering)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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People have been asking how to receive the latest and greatest version
of my raytracer (hereafter referred to as the MTV raytracer).  It is
available from drizzle.cs.uoregon.edu (128.223.4.1).  Also available 
via download are several other raytracers, Eric Haines' NFF package, 
the Utah Teapot converted to NFF, and a ray tracing bibliography
courtesy of Paul Heckbert and Eric Haines.   (Thanks!)

If you have no Internet access, you can try sending me mail.  I attempt
to answer as much mail as I can, but haven't been really great about
it.  (Thesis and all).

I am open for contributions to this archive, subject to my space
limitations (this comes out of my personal disk quota, and I am a lowly
graduate student).  If you have material pertaining to raytracing, or
graphics in general, please feel free to tell me about it.

I am also thinking of changing the status of my program from public
domain to distributable under a GNU-like copyright notice.  The current
version will remain public domain, but the next release will probably be
copyrighted.  This will hopefully increase the experimentation and
sharing that I wished to encourage by releasing it.  I am willing to 
listen to feedback / alternatives. 

Mark Terrence VandeWettering
(The Original MTV)