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- 3D Modeling - Earth Rise Tutorial
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- Dr. R.L. Kellogg
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- This disk contains the IFF images, objects and stage for creating a
- 64 frame animation of the rotating earth above the moon's horizon
- using Impulse's IMAGINE 3D rendering program. The image of the moon
- is from the NASA Apollo-15 astronauts, digitized by Virtual Reality
- Laboratories.
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- The AVID article on this disk is copyrighted by AVID publishers.
- However, the animation images, objects, and renders are freely
- distributed as long as credit is given to AVID and the author.
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- Contents
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- Read.me This text file
- EarthRise.ascii Article "3D Modeling: Earth Rise - An Imagine
- Project" Describes the step by step creation
- and set up of a 3D rendering of the rotating
- earth above the lunar landscape.
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- Im_Images Directory with the following 640x400 HiRes images:
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- EarthMap-outline.pic
- EarthMap-colormap.pic
- EarthMap-clouds.pic
- MoonHorizon.pic
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- Im_Objects Directory with the following Imagine 3D objects
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- earth.obj wireframe sphere of earth
- clouds.obj wireframe sphere of atmosphere
- earth.grp wireframe group of earth & clouds
- moon.obj wireframe rectangle of moon
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- Im_Projects Directory with the following Imagine projects:
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- EarthAnim.imp (dir) Imagine project directory
- containing the following:
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- object (dir) empty
- staging staging information
- EarthRise-Ham (dir) sub-project for HAM
- EarthRise-HiRes (dir) sub-project for HiRes
- EarthRise-24 (dir) sub-project for ILBM-24
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- Note: each of the EarthRise directories have a
- "specs" file which defines the image rendering
- mode used by Imagine. The full name of these
- EarthRise directories has .pix appended.
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- Im_Pix Directory with the following rendered images:
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- Ham (dir)
- pic.0014 Ham image of frame 14
- Ham-E (dir)
- pic.0014 HamE image of frame 14
- based on ILBM-24 image
- HiRes (dir)
- pic.0014 HiRes image of frame 14
- ILBM-24 (dir)
- pic.0014 ILBM-24 image of frame 14
- not renderable with std
- Amiga hardware & software,
- but useable by 24 bit
- image programs.
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- C
- showanim display program - animations (Gary Bonham)
- less display program - text (Bob Leivian)
- m display program - images (Sebastiano Vigna)
- mostra.lzh lharc archive of m
- lharc lharc v.1.0 (Paolo Zibetti)
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- Copy and use these files in your own C directory.
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- Let imagination be your guide.
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- Enjoy. First Principles
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- Dr. R.L. Kellogg
- 7509 Dew Wood Dr.
- Rockville, Md. 20855
- (301)-963-2057
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