wheeler@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU (11/13/87)
A friend of mine across the hall just got a new color Sun. It came with several nice digitized pictures. So the obvious question is: Has anybody written a utility to turn these pictures into Mac II pictures? I believe the pictures are postscript files. I figure that there surely is someone out there in Unix land that has done this already. So what does it entail to port Sun pictures to a Mac II? 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!). We don't get mac.binaries...yet. By the way, DeskPict doesn't seem to work on 4.2/6.0, is there a fix? Similarly, PopKeys/KeyPad don't work in Multifinder, is there a newer version that does. Ferrell Wheeler wheeler@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry) (11/13/87)
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
fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (11/14/87)
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 In article <3192@husc6.UUCP> fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) writes: >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. I have been working with Steve on the Giffer "project", feeding him files digitized on an Amiga using Digiview, which is capable of digitizing in 21-bit color (7-bits each RGB). This costs about $150 if you have a suitable B&W camera, or about $400 if you need the entire package. Not exactly "insanely expensive". I believe that Steve has posted a few of the resulting 256 color images to Compuserve, and I recently sent 8 Mac disks full of pics to someone who wants to upload some to Bix. I think that the digitized images are quite nice, but there is obvious room for improvement, probably via manual intervention during the color mapping from 21-bit color to 8-bit color. If anyone building 24-bit color boards for the Mac would care to send me one, I'd be glad to report on the quality of the pics when no conversion is necessary. :-) :-) :-) -Fred -- # Fred Fish hao!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-3614 # Motorola Computer Division, 2900 S. Diablo Way, Tempe, Az 85282 USA