gilchrid@dvinci.usask.ca (Darren Gilchrist) (10/06/89)
I am enrolled in a computer graphics course at this wonderous educational institution. We are required to do a graphics project. Here is my problem. I having trouble coming up with one. So I am asking the AMIGA world for some ideas. Help!!!!! We are not restricted to any particular machine (So I can use my Amy) or any areas of computer graphics. But I have only 2 months to do this project. Thus the project cannot be too large or time consuming. Two ideas that I have thought of are a graphics editor or something involving photorealistic rendering (ie. raytracing or 3-D modelling). The graphics editor would be created for one of the PD raytracers or maybe for X-Specs glasses and software. Could anyone give info on X-Specs? Is it easy to use? Is there a developer kit? How about project involving GUI (Graphics User Interface)? Any area of computer graphics where a innovative project could done and maybe promote the almighty AMIGA? How conversion of bitmap graphics to structure graphics? Or creating a new IFF format for structured graphics and PostScript? Are these ideas feasible for my project? Any suggestions and comments on ideas would be appreciated. I would like expression my thanks for any help. I post here because the AMIGA community tends to be innovative and creative bunch of people. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Darren (The GILCHRID) Gilchrist University of Saskatchewan gilchrid@dvinci.USask.CA Saskatoon, Sask. GILCHRID@SASK.USask.CA "Build your perception of reality, then, in time, shatter that illusion."
shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) (10/13/89)
+-- gilchrid@dvinci.usask.ca (Darren Gilchrist) writes: [ needs a graphics project for a class ... ] | areas of computer graphics. But I have only 2 months to do this project. | Thus the project cannot be too large or time consuming. | | Two ideas that I have thought of are a graphics editor or something involving | photorealistic rendering (ie. raytracing or 3-D modelling). Photorealistic rendering in a two month school project? 3D-modeling is also a fairly large task, I'm afraid to report. | Any area of computer graphics where a innovative project | could done and maybe promote the almighty AMIGA? How conversion of bitmap | graphics to structure graphics? Nahh, been done... | Or creating a new IFF format for structured | graphics and PostScript? Bingo! We have a winner! Spec out an IFF structured graphics format (perhaps based loosly on PostScript), and write a simple drawing program that reads, writes and edits them. Also write a dumb viewer to let you view the files in any resolution and a program to convert them to PostScript. If you're really ambitious, package up the routines in a shared library. Release it all into the public domain and let nature take its course. :-) | I would like expression my thanks for any help. I post here because the | AMIGA community tends to be innovative and creative bunch of people. If you could create a structured graphic IFF format, and code that developers could use to read and display it, you would be doing an invaluable service. If it was a good standard, you'd be a hero. I have some ideas on the subject that you're welcome to take and steal, use as a starting place or ignore. Send mail if interested. -- Stuart Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) Action by HAVOC (ferguson@metaphor.com)
cunniff@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff) (10/16/89)
> | Or creating a new IFF format for structured > | graphics and PostScript? > Bingo! We have a winner! Spec out an IFF structured graphics format > (perhaps based loosly on PostScript), and write a simple drawing program > that reads, writes and edits them. Also write a dumb viewer to let > you view the files in any resolution and a program to convert them > to PostScript. If you're really ambitious, package up the routines > in a shared library. Release it all into the public domain and let > nature take its course. :-) Umm, it's already been done. The IFF format DR2D is a structured graphics format that supports polygons, splines, groups, object-oriented fill patterns, line weights, line patterns,text, etc. There will (soon?) be a released product that reads and writes it. I will post the latest version of the format to comp.sys.amiga.tech. > | I would like expression my thanks for any help. I post here because the > | AMIGA community tends to be innovative and creative bunch of people. > If you could create a structured graphic IFF format, and code that > developers could use to read and display it, you would be doing an > invaluable service. If it was a good standard, you'd be a hero. *Blush* Of course, I'm biased :-) > Stuart Ferguson Ross Cunniff Hewlett-Packard Colorado Languages Lab ...{ucbvax,hplabs}!hpfcla!cunniff cunniff%hpfcrt@hplabs.HP.COM
shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) (10/25/89)
+-- cunniff@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff) writes: | > | Or creating a new IFF format for structured graphics and PostScript? [ ... ] | Umm, it's already been done. The IFF format DR2D is a structured graphics | [ ... ] I will post the latest version of the | format to comp.sys.amiga.tech. Yes, please do. I remember a spec you posted ... was it a year ago? Anyway, at the time I had some serious issues with it not being a well- behaved (in my opinion) IFF format. I'd be interested in seeing if my complaints have been answered. If you didn't get my original comments, I still have them and could send them to you. -- Stuart Ferguson (shf@well.UUCP) Action by HAVOC (ferguson@metaphor.com)