ImageCELs Botanicals [Imagetects]

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ImageCELs Botanicals

Imagetects

Finally REAL trees and plants for your graphic needs! ImageCELsBotanicals are a global plant collection that will eventually encompassall commercially-grown species worldwide. ImageCELs Botanicals are 32-bit color TGA files with alpha channel masking, which provide superiorquality and performance over fractal or procedural plants for theproduction of realistic graphics and simulations.ImageCELs Botanicals are available individually through the FREE onlineservice DesigNetwork. This collection includes mature and juveniletrees, large and small shrubs, indoor plants, perennials, annuals, andgroundcovers. Each plant comes with a detailed description such asbotanical name, common name, hardiness zone, seasonality, and plant size.Additional information includes pixel height and width and pixels persquare foot.Presently several hundred species are represented in the databaseincluding popular evergreens, conifers, deciduous plants, palms,succulents and flowers. From the coldest to the warmest climates withvibrant spring blossoms to beautiful fall color, ImageCELs Botanicals hasit all.Free GIF thumbnails of every plant can be downloaded. Contact IMAGETECTSto obtain a free interface disk, complete downloading instructions, and alist of many free sample files available.HOW DO I ORDER ImageCELs ONLINE?Simply fax us the list of files you want. Or, give a quick call toIMAGETECTS during normal business hours. That's all it takes. Within afew minutes, the appropriate codes to begin downloading the files will beforwarded to you.IS IT EXPENSIVE TO RECEIVE THE FILES OVER THE PHONE LINES?With today's high speed modems, an average file is transmitted in just afew minutes. DesigNetwork supports 14.4 Kbaud transmission speeds on alllines and a 28.8 Kbaud speed on two of its lines using the latest modemtechnology from Hayes.ISN'T THERE A CHARGE FOR HOW LONG I'M "ONLINE"?DesigNetwork is FREE to anyone! All you pay for is the phone call.HOW DO I GET RID OF THE BLACK BACKGROUND?Most software treats black (0, 0, 0) as transparent. If your softwarehas this capability, set the key color or transparent color to black.Other systems may require the background to be white. This is readilydone using image processing software by simply changing all black (0, 0,0) pixels to the desired background color.HOW DO I USE THE ALPHA CHANNEL?The images have been developed with a bi-level alpha mask over the non-black pixels. As a native file, the image edges are not aliased. Thisis done for several reasons. Scaling the image smaller or larger (evenslightly) using image processing software capable of handling alphachannel data will alias the image fully, and provide a soft edge mask.The images have been developed at a very large scale so that you mayscale them to the correct ratio in relation to the final output.HOW DO I USE THE IMAGES IN MY 3-D RENDERING PROGRAM?ImageCELs have many creative uses in 3-D renderings and graphics. Treesand other objects are placed in flat 2-D vertical polygons, substantiallyreducing the rendering time needed to generate a 3-D object.

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