Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: generic gif to macs Message-ID: <23993@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 9 May 88 15:14:05 GMT References: <174400108@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> <174400109@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 35 I've uploaded the files from usenet to the Mac. You must save them to a unix machine, manually strip out the header and footer, give them a name _different_ from the name in the "begin xxx.gif" line, run uuexpand on them. Take the resulting .gif files, and send them to the Mac using some binary file transfer. I use "macput -d xxx.gif" to talk to MacTerminal set up for Mac-to-mac communication. (Macput is available in C source from the machine sumex-aim.stanford.edu login: anonymous password: anonymous cd(the angle brackets are part of the name.) I got the GIF reader from the same source, and the archived GIF pictures. The StarTrek images are really disappointing: grainy, redish tinged, and only 16 shades. It is kind of amusing to take these, which were obviously full-screen images on the machine for which they were originally intended, but only postcard size on a MacII, and put them all on your screen at once. The images archived with GIF are slightly better: 256 colors, only a very slight reddish tinge. They are all faces from playboy centerfolds. (Not the good bits.) With a 19" display, you can get all 1 of these on your screen at once. Fun to watch the palette manager at work, as each time you click on a new window its palette takes over, and all the other windows get redrawn, with color quickdraw doing its best with the new palette. I wrote the scanner software that produced the color image of a red flower in the April issue of MacWorld. Our scanner produces 6Meg of data for each image: 1500x1024x24bits_per_pixel. I may post a GIF image of that, but it sort of blows GIF out of the water. The scanner costs $8.5k.