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3 total messages Started by HCM100 Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:44

#431

Author: HCM100
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:44

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Hi gang,

I'm doing an independant study/R&D multimedia project here at Penn State
in concert with IBM.  I am researching as many graphic formats on the IBM
(and other systems) that I can find.

Sure, there are the obvious ones, like .GIF and .PCX and such, but what I
would like is input from everyone who knows the history of any of the graphic
formats.  Who devloped them?  How long ago?  How many colors?  VGA?  SVGA?
Do they have 24-bit capacity?  You know the poop.  Please e-mail them to
me (and if enough people are interested I'll be happy to post a summary!)

Thanks in advance!!
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Re: Graphic Formats

#435

Author: Randy M. Rohrer
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:08

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I found a new book that others may find useful.

	Graphics File Formats, David C. Kay and John R. Levine,
	Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 1992. ISBN 0-8306-3060-0

It contains descriptions, info, and history of many graphics file, 
bitmap, and compression  formats.  Much of this info is publicly 
available.  However, this book is nice because it collects it all  
in one place.


	Table of Contents
	-------------------------

 1. Graphics Representation Theory 
    (includes overview of compression methods)
 2. Choosing Formats
 3. PCX
 4. MacPaint
 5. Tiff
 6. Gif
 7. GEM bit image
 8. IFF/ILBM
 9. Truevision Targa
10. Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap
11. Sun Rasterfiles
12. PBM
13. X Window bitmaps
14. X Window Dump
15. JPEG
16. FITS
17. DXF
18. HP-GL
19. Lotus PIC
20. UNIX plot format
21. PCL
22. Basic Postscript
23. WMF
24. PICT
25. CGM
26. Others (including FAX, Facesaver, MPEG, Pixar  
             Pic, RenderMan, SGI, Utah RLE, IGES........)



	
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Randy Rohrer		   	&&   The George Washington University
rmrohre@afterlife.ncsc.mil           Depratment of EE&CS
                          	     rohrer@seas.gwu.edu

Re: Graphic Formats

#449

Author: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:24

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In article <1992Aug28.200805.18914@afterlife.ncsc.mil>,
rmrohre@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Randy M. Rohrer) mentions a book that describes
a bunch of graphics file formats, including:

> 24. PICT

Just a reminder that the Macintosh PICT format is very much a moving target.
Which version of PICT does the book describe:

	* version-1 black-and-white PICT
	* version-2 colour PICT
	* version-2 colour PICT with minor enhancements like storing font
	  names instead of just IDs
	* version-2 colour PICT with 32-bit QuickDraw (direct-RGB pixmap)
	  extensions
	* version-2 colour PICT with 32-bit QuickDraw and QuickTime
	  (compressed pixmap) extensions?

I'd be pleasantly surprised if it went up to the last level. But I would
be disappointed if it didn't go as far as the fourth.

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