3D Modeling -  Earth Rise Tutorial
                        
                             Dr. R.L. Kellogg
                        
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.

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.

			       Contents

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.
			
Im_Images		Directory with the following 640x400 HiRes images:

			EarthMap-outline.pic
                        EarthMap-colormap.pic
                        EarthMap-clouds.pic
                        MoonHorizon.pic
                        
Im_Objects		Directory with the following Imagine 3D objects

			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
                        
Im_Projects		Directory with the following Imagine projects:

			EarthAnim.imp (dir)        Imagine project directory
                        			   containing the following:
                        
                           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
                           
                           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. 
                           
Im_Pix			Directory with the following rendered images:

			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.
        
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)
        
        Copy and use these files in your own C directory.
 
Let imagination be your guide.  

Enjoy.		First Principles
		
                Dr. R.L. Kellogg 
		7509 Dew Wood Dr.
		Rockville, Md. 20855
                (301)-963-2057