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From: ralph@me.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: 3d digitized shuttle data
Message-ID: <338@Pluto.me.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Dec 87 09:49:43 GMT
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Reply-To: ralph@me.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell)
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In article <509@otto.cvedc.UUCP> billa@otto.UUCP (Bill Anderson) writes:
>In article <> apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese) writes:
>>
>>As well I will be include a very simple C program, hacked together by fellow group member
>> [...]
>
>If anyone out there in netland converts this C program so that it can be
>run on suns, please post the results of your work to the net.

It has already been done.  The program should be in /usr/demo/SRC/shaded.c,
the shuttle data is in /usr/demo/DATA/space.dat.  There are notes on running
it in /usr/demo/README.  The program displays 2 windows with cursor lines, to
enable you to select the 3d viewpoint, and there's a pop-up menu for setting
fill style and colour, &c.  For monochrome you need to select the "edges" (I
think) fill style or it'll look pretty wierd.  Also, if your display surface
doesn't support hidden surface removal, you'll get a wireframe effect that
can be confusing to the eye.

/usr/demo/DATA also contains data files for an icosahedron, a pyramid, a
ball and a Klein bottle.

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