echidna@ecr.mu.oz.au (Eric H. Echidna) (02/20/91)
VORT Version 2.0 is now 'officially' available from the following sites: gondwana.ecr.mu.OZ.AU [128.250.1.61] pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z munnari.OZ.AU [128.250.1.21] pub/vort.tar.Z draci.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.64.3] netlib/vort/* uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2] graphics/vogle/vort.tar.Z (uucp also in ~ftp/graphics/vogle/vort/tar.Z) For Australian ACSnet sites Vort may be 'fetchfiled' with: fetchfile -dgondwana.ecr.mu.oz pub/vort.tar.Z Vort is also available via the Australian Netlib at draci.cs.uow.oz Eric H. Echidna. THe following is the README from the Vort distribution. ========================================================================== VORT - a very ordinary rendering tool-kit. Version 2.0 VORT is a collection of tools and a library for the generation and manipulation of images. It includes a ray tracer, pixel library, and utilities for doing gamma correction, median cuts, etc... The current distribution is described as follows: art - a ray tracer for doing algebraic surfaces and CSG models. Art supports the following primitives: polygons, offfiles, rings, disks, torii, superquadrics, spheres, ellipsoids, boxes, cones, cylinders, and algebraic surfaces. Tile patterns can be mapped onto all of the above except algebraics, boxes, and offfiles. The following textures are supported, bumpy, wave, marble, wood, ripple, fuzzy, stucco, spotted, granite, and colorblend. The ray tracer using an acceleration technique based on the spatial kd-tree. tools - some utilities for fiddling around with image files, and converting between various formats. These include tools for converting nff files to art format, and vort files to ppm format (and ppm to vort). docs - various bits of doco on the tools lib - the pixel library files - this has only been developed to the point needed to read and write display files. old - this contains a program for converting image files from 1.0 format to 1.1. sun - a set of display programs for a sun workstation. X11 - a set of display programs for a 256 colour X machine. iris - a display program for an Iris workstation. pc - a set of display programs for a PC with VGA Extended Graphics. movies - some C programs for generating some sample animations. tutes - some C programs for generating some animations that demonstrate the texturing. text3d - some C routines that read in the hershey fonts provided with VOGLE and use them to generate 3d text. Example input files are provided. We would like to thank the following people who helped with this release: Alberto Barsella much bug hunting, ideas, some great scene files, and another pcdisp (showpix) program, plus the colourblend texture. Henry Chatroop for also surviving a VMS port. Joe Lappa for suggestions and bug hunting. Ole Nielsen for vort2sun, bug hunting and ideas. Eric Haines for providing the SPD Databases, which proved invaluable for debugging and testing the kd-tree in art. Mahesh Neelakanta for providing artd, and dart. This software is public domain, and provided without guarantee, although if you send beer (use the snail mail address, it's less messy) we will drink it. Surfaces, material properties, and general chat can be directed to: echidna@munnari.oz.au echidna@ecr.mu.oz.au or by snail mail to: The Software Support Programmer Department Of Engineering Computer Resources, Faculty Of Engineering, University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia. Enjoy.