stan@shell.UUCP (Stan Hanks) (12/21/88)
OK, so there are some nice backgrounds out there. Great. Any that don't
look like crap on a high-res mono display? Yes, the 1600x1200 version...
Stan Hanks
Research Computer Scientist, (and Postmaster!)
Shell Development Company, Bellaire Research Center (713) 663-2385
...!{sun,psuvax1,bcm,rice,decwrl,cs.utexas.edu}!shell!stan stan@rice.edutale@pawl.rpi.edu (12/22/88)
mephdbo%prism@gatech.edu (d. majumder) writes: >Hi, anybody got some interesting rasterfiles for suntools background? A follow-up suggested surya.waterloo.edu (129.97.129.72) in /images/sun. I couldn't get there ... surya was unknown and I kept timing out on the numeric address. I would suggest trying life.pawl.rpi.edu (128.113.10.2) for some additional images. Backgrounds are in pub/backgrounds. Files which have the extension *.pic are suitable for use as backgrounds on black-and-white suns. There is a lot of anime, but a few Eschers, some prints by Olivia and one or two miscellaneous rasters. Enjoy! Dave ---- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu
aad@uunet.uu.net (Anthony A. Datri) (01/07/89)
tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes: >A follow-up suggested surya.waterloo.edu (129.97.129.72) in /images/sun. >I couldn't get there ... surya was unknown and I kept timing out on the >numeric address. I too got timeouts getting there, but assumed it was because of the ponderousness of the local net where I was trying from. I managed to get through a couple times, most easily over the holiday, and got all the files. If someone wants to exchange tapes, I've got them as well as a bunch of CMU Andrew rasters, some of which were originally sun rasters, some of which were not. [[ Surya's name server entry appears to be incomplete. All it contains is an MX record---there is no address information. I have had no trouble connecting to the host. It all depends on what network you are on, which gateways you have to use, and how loaded things are. --wnl ]] Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad
mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) (01/14/89)
["LA, where neon goes to die. . ."] I've picked up a few of the background images. Anyone whose seen 'em all should post a review of which ones are worth our trouble to get, and what we should pass over. With that it mind, I wasn't able to get the moon image to work, sunview just ignores it. (If I had a microgram of initiative, I suppose I could probe around in the sunview source, but after the holidays, I'm just to beat. . . %-). The moon image is almost a quarter meg in size, where vanna is only about 30K and works fine. Why would Moon be so much larger, and why doesn't it work, eh? "Vanna" is fills up about a quarter of the screen, but is pretty good. She looks like a converted MacVision shot. "Saturn" is a Voyager saturn pix, but is likewise smaller than the full screen, and doesn't look all that hot. "Marilyn" fills up the entire screen, but is rather dark and low contrast. "Space" is of Astronaut Bruce McCandless flying the MMU above the earth. It is full-screen, and quite impressive. mike -- *** mike smithwick ***