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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1246.0. "IFF to UIS?" by WJG::GUINEAU (Do you know we exist?) Tue Mar 15 1988 11:09

I'm finally dabbling with Sculpt 3D. I made some pictures this weekend (you
know, the standard reflecting spheres, diamonds etc..) When they look
reasonable I'll upload them for laughs...

Anyway, I've seen the "glass" picture and others on DEC (UIS) workstations.

Are these really UIS images which were converted to IIF for Amiga consumption,
or (and here's the $20,000 question) is there a program floating around
which will convert IIF pics (from Sculpt 3D) to UIS renderable files?


John 

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1246.1A little historyCOOKIE::WECKERA wholly owned subsidiary of DECTue Mar 15 1988 18:5711
re:	.0

The original ray-tracer code was for UIS and is available on VMS (lots of
pictures have been done with it). A while back I took the basic ideas and
wrote DBW_Render for the Amiga. At the time it used the same input file
format, so many of the pictures are the same. Then I wrote a version to
run on VMS and ULTRIX that still generates IFF, I also wrote an IFF to
X windows conversion utility.

Sorry, but I never got around to writing a UIS -> IFF -> UIS utility... I
never needed one.
1246.2VMS --> IFF ??LEMAN::BLANCPhil Lausanne-CH 26-APR-1988 11:36Tue Apr 26 1988 09:444
    Hi Dave,
    Can you give pointers to this program?
    (VMS DBW_render creating IFF pictures ..)
    Thanx	Phil