clark@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Robert P. Clark) (05/01/89)
Don't yell at me, I know this is the wrong newsgroup, but the Sun
newsgroup is moderated and takes FOREVER to get a response, so I'll
ask here (it'll never happen again).
Are there any ftp-sites that have Sun raster images?
[BTW, posting to a moderated newsgroup causes the
message to be sent to the moderator, even if you also
post to unmoderated groups.
However, I have one site that might help:
xanth.cs.odu.edu. tww]
e-mail me please,
[and cc: me as well. tww]
Bob Clark clark@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~comparc@twwells.uucp (comp.archives) (05/15/89)
In article <8905011510.AA01532@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>, Bob Clark writes: > Are there any ftp-sites that have Sun raster images? > > Bob Clark clark@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu I received two replies to the question, the relevant parts of which are included here: --- Bill { uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill send comp.archives postings to twwells!comp-archives send comp.archives related mail to twwells!comp-archives-request -------- From: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus) Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque I have 8 high resolution Sun raster images available via anonymous ftp from pprg.unm.edu (path:/pub/images/color/sun_raster_high_res). I also have many other raw images that you can convert to Sun rasters using the two source files I also have available (path:/pub/images/color/src). The sources, though, only work on color images. There are READMEs in each directory which I strongly recommend you look at. -------- From: moraes@csri.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) There are a lot of Portable Bitmap (pbm) images on expo.lcs.mit.edu in the directory contrib/poskbitmaptars. The file contrib/pbm.tar.Z contains utilities to manipulate and convert between different types of images, so you can convert them to Sun rasterfiles, which is the form we prefer to store them in (actually compressed rasterfiles) because it uses up so much less space. A similar set of utilities for colour images are the Fuzzy Pixmap (fbm) utilities which allow you to do all sorts of fun things to images. You can convert images to Sun rasterfiles. Since it reads in GIF, you can grab gif images from the various sites that have them (surya.waterloo.edu, ssyx.ucsc.edu, hubcap.clemson.edu, sbcs.sunysb.edu, a.cs.uiuc.edu) and convert/scale/dither them. With these two packages, you are pretty well armed to sally forth into netland and get images, since you can convert them into formats that you can manipulate.