[comp.graphics] computer generated image

butterwo@tigger.cs.unc.edu (Jeff Butterworth) (11/22/89)

    A little while ago someone mentioned that no new images had been put in
the public ftp sites in the last few months.  I also noticed that lack of
activity and am curious about it.  Has everyone stopped using the public
domain ray-tracers?  I'm more interested in seeing computer generated images
than in digitized ones, although a bathing suit in the root window is nice now
and then.

	Anyway, I've just uploaded an image I made this last summer at
Data General to geomag.gly.fsu.edu (128.186.10.2).  It was made using Pixar's
Reyes renderer and comes in a few sizes...
avn_vga.gif	320x200	looks best on a VGA for the pc
avn_mac.gif	640x480	looks best on a Mac II
avn_ati.gif	800x600	looks best on an ATI VGA Wonder for the pc
These are in the directory /pub/pics/gifs.

	By the way, for those of you that like to see good looking computer
generated images, take a look at fractint10.  Fractint10 is a public domain
program that generates about 3 zillion types of fractals and support about
12 billion kinds of graphics modes for the pc.  You can even map the resulting
images (and any GIF images for that matter) onto spheres.  I think it's
available on simtel20 in the directory pd1:<msdos.graphics>.

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