Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!alias!barney!rae
From: Reid Ellis <rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: Transfering Mac picts to be read into Alias on the SGI.
Message-ID: <rae.665220296@barney>
Keywords: Alias, SGI, Mac, Renderman, RIB
Sender: Reid Ellis <rae%alias@csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: Reid Ellis <rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Alias Research, Inc. Toronto ON Canada
References: <29620@usc> <rae.664968141@barney> <1991Jan29.040933.3132@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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Date: 30 Jan 91 07:24:56 GMT

Robert Letterman <robertl@skat.usc.edu> writes:
|Does anyone know of a way to convert Macintosh pict or tiff files to a
|format readable by the program Alias running on a Silicon Graphics
|Iris for the purpose of texture mapping.

Reid Ellis (That's me) <rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> writes:
|You can use the beta version of the new PBM package -- it includes
|some utilities for reading PICT files now and I think it has a filter
|for output of SGI image files.

R. Munroe <topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> writes:
|The last time I looked the PICT -> PBM (actually PPM) utility did not
|handle PICT1 files (1 bit) or 16 or 32 bit PICT2 files.
[other problems deleted]

What I do for this is to convert my PICT file to GIF on my Mac using
one of the many picture manipulating utilities available, upload that
to the Iris, and then use the "fromgif" and "toalias" tools posted
here and elsewhere in the past.

Hope this helps..
					Reid
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