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- Here's a few simple raytracing programs that I have ported over to the
- NeXT. They work in full color and produce rgb images. There are README
- files and sample picture description files to play with, but there's no
- real documentation and no GUI front end. It's all text based and you'll
- need to use a terminal window to run it. (The tracers sure are fun to play
- with, though!) There's also an .app called "Viewer" that will allow you
- to view the pictures produced by the raytracers and convert them to .tiffs.
- The viewer requires a ".pic" extension on the files. (Sources are included
- so the adventurous could easily change that.) The files themselves are
- binary files which have two ints specifying the X and Y size of the image
- followed by X*Y*3 chars of interleaved rgb data. See the sources for more
- info. Have fun!
-
- -Don Yacktman
- Nov. 1, 1991
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