E You are reading the first issue of bitmap. We hope you will like it.
F What you are about to read/see is an a joint effort of the following
people:
Adam Benjamin
Rowan Crawford
Craig Donaldson
Ted Whitton
and ourselves.
F We wish to thank all those who send their work in and/or gave their
permission to publish it.
F Within the magazine itself you will find a variety of articles on theFsubject of graphics. We have a piece about lighting effect in POV-RayF2.0 (thanks Rowan!), a set of convolution tables for ADPro (you canFuse them in other programs but you will need to type them in yourself)Fand a short piece on designing your own fonts (for Imagine, Real 3DFand Caligari). Adam Benjamin gave us permission to publish his reviewAof Scala MM 210 as published in comp.sys.amiga.reviews on UseNet.
F Other material that could not be integrated into Magnetic PagesF(provided by Mark Gladding) had been placed in the Images, Objects andFMisc drawers. You will need to de-arc it with the lha archiver yourself.
!Here is what you will find there:
AImages/hall.lha - Publicity shot of that very famous but shy ray-3 traced star working with Craig...: output: Imagine 2.0> author: Craig Donaldson
0Images/moon.jpg - A postcard from the future ...9 output: Real 3D v2: author: Ted Whitton
@Images/space.lzh - "I think we may have some problems Capt'n..."9 output: Real 3D v2: author: Ted Whitton
:Images/study.lha - A place to think... To be or not to be?C output: Imagine 2.0, Essence> author: Craig Donaldson
:Images/model.jpg - Not that's what I'd like to do with VR!6 output: Imagine< author: Adam Benjamin
-Objects/A_C.lha - Letter A in Caligari format,Objects/A_I.lha - Letter A in Imagine format,Objects/A_R.lha - Letter A in Real 3D format
/Misc/CTables.lha - Convolution tables for ADPro
FThe good news is that you can get Imagine 2.0 (non-fpu version) forF3.95ukp. You need to buy issue 53 (December) of Amiga Format. If youFcannot get it from your local newsagent you can write to Amiga Format,FSubscription/Back Issues, FREEPOST, Future Publishing Ltd, Cary Court,FSomerton, Somerset, TA11 7BR, England or mailFamformat@cix.compulink.co.uk. This entitles you to an upgrade toFImagine 3.0 for 95ukp (there was a misprint in the mag that saidF75ukp). This offer open new possibilities for a lot of people who&could not afford to go into 3d before.
F Since it is difficult for a magazine like bitmap to exhaust yourFthirst for knowledge we decided to have a special section about books