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- From: acc@asterix.inescn.pt (Antonio Costa)
- Subject: MAC-RTrace 1.0 * ray tracing in the MAC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.155020.1329@animal.inescn.pt>
- Keywords: Ray tracing
- Sender: acc@bart.inescn.pt (Antonio Costa)
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- Organization: CG & CAD - INESC Norte
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:50:20 GMT
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- ***** M A C u s e r s *****
-
- The MAC-RTrace 1.0 ray-tracer is available in directory
- pub/RTrace/Macintosh at asterix.inescn.pt [192.35.246.17] in files
-
- rtrace-1.0.cpt.hqx - the application and manuals
- rtrace-1.0-src.cpt.hqx - the source
- scenes-1.0.cpt.hqx - demo scenes to ray trace
-
- Please ftp at night (our time is GMT).
-
- It is also available in sumex.stanford.edu and somewhere in umich.edu
-
- It is necessary to have Compact-Pro to extract the files...
- Please feel free to get it and use it.
- Hope you like it.
-
- Here goes the Readme file that Reid Judd wrote:
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- The file
- rtrace-1.0.cpt.hqx
- contains the Mac-RTrace-1.0 application and complete manuals
- in Microsoft Word and TeachText format. This version of RTrace
- requires at least a Mac with a 68020/68881 FPU but it is possible
- to build a version from the source that does not have this
- restriction.
-
- Two small scene files (demo.sff and sphere.sff) are included.
-
- RTrace was written by Antonio Costa at INESC-Norte in Portugal. The
- MacIntosh version was written by Greg Ferrar at Ohio State and myself
- (Reid Judd at Illuminati).
-
- RTrace supports these capabilities:
- point lights, directional lights, spot lights with fall-off, extended
- lights, 2 ways of defining surfaces, spheres, axis-aligned
- parallelipipeds, cylinders, cones, bicubic patches, polygons,
- polygonal patches, high quality 3D text, CSG operations,
- 4x4 matrix transformations, textures, depth of field, diffuse
- distribution, stereoscopic pair creation, ...
-
- Procedural textures (with 4x4 matrix transformations) are also
- supported: checkerboard, color blotches, marble, bump map,
- fractal-brownian-motion, wood, glossy, image mapping, waves,
- and many others.
-
- Mac-RTrace uses parametric equations (using an algebraic equation
- parser) to define animations and it outputs PICT images, PPM images,
- and (of course) QuickTime movies.
-
- Enjoy,
- -- Reid Judd
-
- ILLUMINATI@AppleLink.Apple.Com
- 2617 Sweetbriar Rd.
- Durham, NC 27704
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-
- Regards,
- Antonio Costa.
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