This is a still frame taken from an animation I'm working on called
"Tall_Ship's_Passage".  It was rendered on an Amiga 4000 using Imagine 2.0
and the Essence algorithmic texture package.  The picture may be freely
distributed provided it is not modified in any way and this text file is
included.

There are two version of the picture included:

   Tall_Ships_Passage.HAM8  - a 896x628 HAM8 picture.  The default
                              viewmode is SUPER72.  Using anything else
                              will produce a slighty wrong aspect ratio
                              (SUPER72 has roughly square pixels, while
                              those in 640x400 modes are not).  You may
                              have to adjust your monitor or overscan
                              prefs to see the entire overscanned SUPER72
                              picture.

   Tall_Ships_Passage.GIF   - a 256 color 1024x768 GIF file.  The HAM8
                              looks better due to the larger number of
                              available colors, but this one uses larger
                              resolution for those with display cards that
                              can handle 1024x768x8.

I did NOT make a .jpeg file, because the .jpeg seemed to destroy many of
the details of the flag and ship even on the most "loss free" setting.
The GIF in 8 bit looks better than the jpeg did in 24 bit.  Also,
this pictures really needs at least 640x400 to be displayed.  Rendering to
320x400/HAM6 makes for an absolutely horrible looking image, so there is
really no point to providing a conversion in that format.  Feel free to
convert one of these if you like, but the results won't be much to look
at.

The picture took roughly 4 hours to render on an Amiga 4000/040 in
1024x768 with the highest degree of antialiasing.  The animation frames in
640x400 with slightly less anti-aliasing took about 55 minutes each.
Essence textures were used for the weathered brick on the lighthouses &
the patterns in the lighthouse light beams.  Imagine global fog was used
to give a feeling of depth and character.

The final 250 frame animation is the result of 90 Mb of data and about
14000 CPU-minutes of rendering time.  I'll upload the animation to an FTP
site in a few weeks (after my Dpaint/AGA gets here!).  It will require at
least 14 Mb of RAM to play, or an HD animation player which supports AGA
graphics modes.  You will also need an AGA equipped Amiga, obviously.

    Steve Koren
    koren@fc.hp.com
    303-226-4986 (evenings, weekends)

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[generic]               252186  252186 100.0% -lh0- e588 Jan 17  1993 Tall_Ships_Passage.GIF
[generic]               376578  420976  89.5% -lh1- b1f1 Jan 13  1993 Tall_Ships_Passage.HAM8
[generic]                 1302    2575  50.6% -lh1- 64c0 Jan 17  1993 tsp.readme_first
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 Total         3 files  630066  675737  93.2%            Jan 18  1993