VORT Version 2.0 available.

[Eric H. Echidna]

VORT Version 2.0 is now 'officially' available from the following sites:

	gondwana.ecr.mu.OZ.AU [128.250.1.61] pub/graphics/vort.tar.Z
	munnari.OZ.AU [128.250.1.21] pub/vort.tar.Z
	draci.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.64.3] netlib/vort/*
	uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2] graphics/vogle/vort.tar.Z
		(uucp also in ~ftp/graphics/vogle/vort/tar.Z)

For Australian ACSnet sites Vort may be 'fetchfiled' with:

		fetchfile -dgondwana.ecr.mu.oz pub/vort.tar.Z

Vort is also available via the Australian Netlib at draci.cs.uow.oz

	Eric H. Echidna.

THe following is the README from the Vort distribution.

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VORT - a very ordinary rendering tool-kit. Version 2.0

VORT is a collection of tools and a library for the generation and
manipulation of images. It includes a ray tracer, pixel library, and
utilities for doing gamma correction, median cuts, etc...

The current distribution is described as follows:

art	- a ray tracer for doing algebraic surfaces and CSG models. Art
	supports the following primitives: polygons, offfiles, rings, disks,
	torii, superquadrics, spheres, ellipsoids, boxes, cones, cylinders,
	and algebraic surfaces. Tile patterns can be mapped onto all of the
	above except algebraics, boxes, and offfiles. The following textures
	are supported, bumpy, wave, marble, wood, ripple, fuzzy, stucco, 
	spotted, granite, and colorblend. The ray tracer using an
	acceleration technique based on the spatial kd-tree.

tools	- some utilities for fiddling around with image files, and converting
	between various formats. These include tools for converting nff files
	to art format, and vort files to ppm format (and ppm to vort).

docs	- various bits of doco on the tools

lib	- the pixel library files - this has only been developed to the
	point needed to read and write display files.

old	- this contains a program for converting image files from 1.0
	format to 1.1.

sun	- a set of display programs for a sun workstation.

X11	- a set of display programs for a 256 colour X machine.

iris	- a display program for an Iris workstation.

pc	- a set of display programs for a PC with VGA Extended Graphics.

movies	- some C programs for generating some sample animations.

tutes	- some C programs for generating some animations that demonstrate
	the texturing.

text3d 	- some C routines that read in the hershey fonts provided with VOGLE
	and use them to generate 3d text. Example input files are provided.

We would like to thank the following people who helped with this release:
	Alberto Barsella much bug hunting, ideas, some great scene files, and
	another pcdisp (showpix) program, plus the colourblend texture.
	Henry Chatroop for also surviving a VMS port.
	Joe Lappa for suggestions and bug hunting.
	Ole Nielsen for vort2sun, bug hunting and ideas.
	Eric Haines for providing the SPD Databases, which proved
	invaluable for debugging and testing the kd-tree in art.
	Mahesh Neelakanta for providing artd, and dart.

This software is public domain, and provided without guarantee, although if
you send beer (use the snail mail address, it's less messy) we will drink it.

Surfaces, material properties, and general chat can be directed to:

	echidna at munnari.oz.au
	echidna at ecr.mu.oz.au

or by snail mail to:

	The Software Support Programmer
	Department Of Engineering Computer Resources,
	Faculty Of Engineering,
	University Of Melbourne,
	Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia.

Enjoy.