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- This is the Contents of APDC Disk # 013: Interactive Graphics
-
- User Notes:
-
- 1) The programs on this disk have been fully tested under WorkBench 1.2
- Only some programs will work under Workbench 1.1
-
- 2) IMPORTANT: This disk is too full to save on! In particular the ray
- tracer requires at least 400 free blocks to save a generation. Please
- ---- Make a backup copy of this disk.
- ---- Copy the programs onto less full disks before attempting to save
- any data. You can do this simply by dragging the program drawer
- icons from this disk onto another (emptier) disk.
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- This disk contains the following Interactive Graphics programs:
-
- RayTracer This excellent program allows you to generate ray
- tracing images.
-
- NOTE: This distribution does not include the
- program source code. Please see the file
- COPYING for license and distribution
- information.
-
- Full documentation is provided in the file RAY.Doc
-
- How to use the program to generate images:
-
- There is one complete example in this drawer, namely
- glass.dat and glass.tmp.
- The files with the .tmp extension may be
- post-processed with the program RAY2. In the CLI
- type:
-
- 1>RAY2 glass
-
- The program RAY2 will proceed to create and then
- display a file glass.ilbm. Once RAY2 has completed
- the screen will flash once, indicating the image
- may now be exited by clicking the invisible close
- gadget in the upper left-hand corner.
-
- The file with the .tmp extensions were originally
- generated from the file glass.dat using the
- program RAY. The file glass.dat is a text file
- consisting of various parameters (described at
- length in the file RAY.Doc) that the user may set
- or leave at default.
-
- The program RAY typically requires a long time to
- run (in the range of 10 hours). As it computes it
- writes the line by line output to a file with
- extension .tmp The program RAY2 is used to
- convert this .tmp file to a HAM mode image.
-
- Besides the files glass.dat and its associated
- files, there are two other unprocessed data files
- in this drawer, namely brick.dat, and island.dat
-
- Use any text editor (AmigaDOS ed, or one of the
- Emacs editors, for example) to work with these
- .dat files.
-
-
- ROT A program to generate and display 3D objects.
- See the file readme for quick demo instructions.
- See the file ROTHints for more instructions. (This
- file can also be accessed within the program ROT.
- Choose Help menu option with mouse).
-
- There are several demo objects and demo rotations
- available in this drawer. The demo objects have
- the extension .ROTOBJ and may be accessed in the
- ROT object editor, and the demo rotations have the
- extension .ROTACT and may be accessed in the ROT
- action editor. Each action demo may be used with
- each object demo.
-
-
- VDraw Many-featured DPaint-style paint program.
- Version 1.19 512K USERS CLOSE ALL WINDOWS BEFORE
- RUNNING THIS PROBGRAM! The VDraw icon should start
- up the program. If it does not try assigning the
- name "vdraw" to the disk and drawer where the program
- resides.
- For example, to use VDraw on this disk type at CLI:
-
- 1>assign: vdraw: "APDC # 013:VDraw"
-
- To execute program now type
-
- 1>"APDC # 013:VDraw/Vdraw1.19"
-
-
- mCAD An object-oriented drawing program. Must be run
- from CLI. See mCAD.Doc for instructions.
-
- Dropshadow Allows the creation and modification of WorkBench
- window shadows. Full source code is also included
- in this directory (files with extensions, e.g., ds.c)
-
- IFF2PCS A puzzle game program. There is one demo picture
- on this disk, namely BugsBunny. Any IFF format
- image can be used with this excellent program.
-