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From: bhine@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Butler Hine  sst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: More info on FBM and PBM
Keywords: image conversion processing
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Date: 4 Apr 89 17:13:55 GMT
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Hi everyone,

	I apologize for the incomplete directions to the source to FBM and PBM.
They are on nl.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.222.56) in the directory /usr/mlm/ftp.
The FBM source is called fbm09.tar.Z (this is the beta 0.9 version with
IFF support).  The complementary package for binary B&W images (a la Mac)
is also there and is called pbm.tar.Z.  I also got some mail from Kenn Barry
at barry@eos.arc.nasa.gov (right next door!) who has done a port to the
Amiga and says that it is not very difficult.  For those of you who are
using the QRT ray tracer, I have written a program: qrt2fbm, which
translates the raw QRT output into native FBM format (QRT is a very nice
ray tracer with a relatively clear input language that runs on Amigae
and Un*x machines).  I am working on a method of locking the palettes of
the IFF translation so that I can make animations using the QRT output.
I'll keep you guys posted on the progress.

			Butler Hine
			hine@galileo.arc.nasa.gov