[comp.sys.amiga] More info on FBM and PBM

bhine@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Butler Hine sst) (04/05/89)

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

dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) (04/16/89)

In article <23412@ames.arc.nasa.gov> bhine@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Butler Hine  sst) writes:
|	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)

Help!  I can't seem to get these.  I connected to this, and all I seemed
to have access to was a bunch of Japanese names.  I tried cd /usr/mlm/ftp
and it just said I didn't have access.  I would really like to get these.

Thanks.
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