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- Preface
- This program is a port of Qbist (published in c't 10/95 (a German
- magazine)). Because there was no Amiga version (sight) only Mac
- and Windows versions I ported it (I used the Mac source code as a
- start).
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- It creates what could be called abstract art.
- One could think that abstract art can be created by just randomly
- drawing some lines, circles or whatever to the screen, but that just
- looks confused most of the time.
- Qbist takes a different approach: Pictures are created useing a single
- (quite complex, I might add) formula, giving much better looking results.
- Althogh the formula is complex the use of the software is easy, Qbist
- will just calculate some pictures (with random initized formula values)
- and the user can decide which picture should be used to create new
- variations, two pictures can also be mixed.
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- The Screen:
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- What you will see first when you start up Qbist is some pixles beeing
- drawn somewhere on the screen. This is Qbist at work drawing the main
- (or center) picture. Qbist will draw 9 pictures. The center picture
- and 8 variations of it.
- The pictures will also be enumerated (0 to 8).
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- Display:
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- Due to the way colors are managed in 256 color screen modes
- the calculated pictures will not look very good.
- This version (1.1) was written with gfx cards in mind, pictures
- on 8bit screen will probably look better with version 1.0.
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- Menus:
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- Project Menu:
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- New This will create a new main picture with variations.
- Open... Open a saved Qbist file (main picture data)
- Save... Save the main picture datas (not the picture image!)
- Write JPG... Will save the main picture as a 24bit JPeg.
- The requester parameters should be obvious.
- Screenmode... Select a screenmode for Qbist
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- About... Some Infos
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- Quit Guess what...
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- Variations Menu:
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- Fine
- Medium These select the variation intensity
- Rought
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- Gene Lab Will present you a little GUI. You can select two
- pictures to mix and a mutation level.
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- Variate Main Creates new variations of the main picture.
- Variate 1 Will make variation 1 the main picture and variate it.
- Variate 2 Will make variation 2 the main picture and variate it.
- etc. etc.
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- Requirements
- OS 2.04, 68020+, AGA or a Gfx-card, a FPU helps but is not
- required. On a plain A1200 it will be slow like hell.
- reqtools.library version 38
- gtlayout.library version 19
- (both libs *not* included in the archive)
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- Legal Stuff
- The programs and files in this distribution are FREEWARE. That is: they
- are copyright © Thomas Bickel, but they may be freely distributed as long as
- no more than a nominal fee is charged to cover distribution costs. Moreover
- they can't be distributed separately or in a commercial package without
- written permission from the author. It may be distibuted on Aminet CDs.
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- Brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
- their respective holders.
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- This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
- To name it: This program was linked with some routines from release 6
- of the IJG's JPEG software.
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- QbistAmiga uses libpng:
- libpng 1.0 beta 4 - version 0.90
- January 10, 1997
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- Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 Guy Eric Schalnat, Group 42, Inc.
- Contributing Authors:
- Sam Bushnell
- Andreas Dilger
- Dave Martindale
- Guy Eric Schalnat
- Paul Schmidt
- Tim Wegner
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- The contributing authors would like to thank all those who helped
- with testing, bug fixes, and patience. You know who you are. This
- wouldn't have been possible without all of you.
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- Thanks to Frank J. T. Wojcik for helping with the documentation
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- The PNG Reference Library is supplied "AS IS". The Contributing Authors
- and Group 42, Inc. disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied,
- including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of
- fitness for any purpose. The Contributing Authors and Group 42, Inc.
- assume no liability for direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary,
- or consequential damages, which may result from the use of the PNG
- Reference Library, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.
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- Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
- source code, or portions hereof, for any purpose, without fee, subject
- to the following restrictions:
- 1. The origin of this source code must not be misrepresented.
- 2. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such and must not be
- misrepresented as being the original source.
- 3. This Copyright notice may not be removed or altered from any source or
- altered source distribution.
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- The Contributing Authors and Group 42, Inc. specifically permit, without
- fee, and encourage the use of this source code as a component to
- supporting the PNG file format in commercial products. If you use this
- source code in a product, acknowledgment is not required but would be
- appreciated.
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- and for zlib:
- version 1.0.4, Jul 24th, 1996.
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- Copyright (C) 1995-1996 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
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- This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
- warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
- arising from the use of this software.
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- Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
- including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
- freely, subject to the following restrictions:
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- 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
- claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
- in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
- appreciated but is not required.
- 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
- misrepresented as being the original software.
- 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
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- Jean-loup Gailly Mark Adler
- gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu madler@alumni.caltech.edu
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- gtlayout.library (c) Olaf `Olsen' Barthel
- reqtools.library (c) Nico François
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- Original Mac version of Qbist: (c) 1995 c't, Dr.Jörn Loviscach
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- Disclaimer
- This program is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind or fitness
- for a particular purpose, either expressed or implied, all of which are
- hereby explicitly disclaimed. The author only guarantees that this program
- will occupy disk space.
- In no event shall the author be liable to you or anyone else for any
- damages, including any lost profits, lost savings or other incidental or
- consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use this
- software.
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