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-- What should have been in the .ZIP file ------------------------------------
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NEOPIC_H.PI3 -+
NEOPIC_M.PI2 |_ Desktop background
WARP9_H.PI3 | pictures.
WARP9_M.PI2 -+
READTHIS.1ST This file.
-- What this is --------------------------------------------------------------
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These are some pictures you can use as desktop background pictures, in both
medium and high resolution forms. The NEOPIC pictures are intended for use
with NeoDesk, and contain the NeoDesk logo. The WARP9 pictures contain no
logo. If you have both packages, using both sets of pictures will cause the
NeoDesk logo to appear or disappear, depending on whether you're at the NeoDesk
desktop. Consult the manuals for NeoDesk or Warp 9 if you're not sure how to
install these pictures.
NeoDesk is a registered trade mark of Gribnif Software. Many thanks for their
permission to use it in these pictures.
-- Where the pictures came from ----------------------------------------------
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Originally I had used the Windoze MARBLE.BMP as a base image for the
background, however, Microsoft protects their copyright quite religiously and
it's not exactly smart to spread around their files without their permission.
So I created a marble surface using the POV (Persistence of Vision) ray tracer
on the PC, traced it, and converted it from .TGA to .PI2 form with a custom
program.
I then loaded PageStream and displayed "NeoDesk" in the Flash font at around 72
points. I took a snapshot of the screen and imported this image into a custom
paint program to do some touch-up work.
I then loaded the marble image into the paint program and applied the NeoDesk
logo to it with sculpted edges. Some final touch-up work included adding the ╛
symbol to the NEOPIC pictures.
To get the monochrome versions, I switched to my mono monitor and used View II
to display the medium res pics with the Floyd-Steinberg dither. I then
snapshotted the screens.
It sounds like a lot of work, and it was... but I got a set of pictures I
really like. That makes a big difference.
-dmj