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- From: haggas@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR A TREE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.124219.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:12:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.163940.8365@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx) writes:
- >
- > I'm putting together a large family tree and I want to include a graphic
- > of a tree on the cover. I want simply a tree with no leaves, sort of a
- > branching thing.
- >
- > I have a small clip-art graphic of what I want, but when I enlarge it,
- > of course, it looks choppy (damn bitmaps anyway).
- >
- > So, is there a high resolution tree out there?
- >
- > OR
- >
- > Can I convert my bitmap image into a vector image that will look better?
- >
- > I have Windows 3.1, MS Word 2.0, CorelDraw 3.0, and the usual windows
- > paintbrush, etc., GWS.
- >
- > Can any of these do what I want? I tried using corel trace on my tree,
- > but it came out like some neo-modern warped representation of a tree.
- >
- > Thanks for your help.
- >
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Gregory R. Cook gcook@horus.cem.msu.edu
- > Department of Chemistry cookgreg@student.msu.edu
- > Michigan State University cook@msucem.BITNET
- Use a fractal tree. This should give you a good tree, without leaves,
- that could be controlled with your input parameters. Capture the image
- as an EGA 640x480x16.
- Re: Fractal Programming In C, by Roger T. Stevens, 1989, M&T Books.
- Chapter 12: Trees, Tree-Drawing Program, page 229.
- John Haggas
- haggas@kean.ucs.mun.ca
-