Pointers to images

MPEG Video Software Decoder

Online documentation for the Motif version of mpeg_play is available on the web.

Calvin & Hobbes 

April 7, 1994
Introducing the Calvin & Hobbes page. Contains a small number of gifs, bitmaps, and ASCII drawings, in addition to humorour quotations.

Doctor Fun

Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.d,comp.infosystems.www,
            rec.arts.comics.strips
From: dgf1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (David Farley)
Subject: Doctor Fun - Frequently Asked Questions
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 05:00:56 GMT

Your Questions Answered About Doctor Fun

This will primarily be of interest to people who get Doctor Fun via Usenet, since this FAQ is replacing the current readme file on the Doctor Fun World Wide Web page, and will also be available via Gopher/FTP but I'm taking the liberty of cross posting it to alt.binaries.pictures.d, comp.infosystems.www, news.answers, and rec.arts.comics.strips. I've left out all the smileys :-) Insert them where you feel they're appropriate...

What is Doctor Fun?

Doctor Fun is a single-panel cartoon distributed every weekday over the Internet. Although the cartoons are dated by weekday, I generally update them the evening before the date that appears on the cartoon, and Monday's cartoon is usually on-line sometime Friday evening. Doctor Fun has been in production since September 24, 1993.

How can I get Doctor Fun?

At the moment, there are four ways to access Doctor Fun. Probably the best way is via World Wide Web. The URL is: http://sunsite.unc.edu/Dave/drfun.html.

You can FTP Doctor Fun from sunsite.unc.edu in the directory: pub/electronic-publications/Dr-Fun.

Sunsite.unc.edu is also a gopher server.

Doctor Fun is also available via Usenet in alt.binaries.pictures.misc.

Fractal Movie Archive at the CNAM

From: Frank.Roussel@univ-rennes1.fr ( Frank ROUSSEL )
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Subject: * FRACTAL MOVIE ARCHIVE * (Web document via CNAM / Paris)
Date: 21 Mar 1994 21:32:27 GMT
Organization: CRI/CICB Universite' de Rennes 1 - FR
I'm proud to announce you that a Fractal Movie Archive has been opened at the CNAM of Paris.

You may also have a look at the Fractal Art Gallery too.

NOTE: You can also accede via ftp.

The MPEG Movie Archive

From: heiniw@sun3.eeb.ele.tue.nl (Heini Withagen)
Date: 25 Feb 1994 09:12:06 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
The MPEG Movie Archive is divided into different categories depending on the contents of the movies. Currently we have the following subdivision:

Digital USA relief map

From: hmueller@amethyst.tamu.edu (Hal Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Date: 22 Feb 1994 02:48:25 GMT
A couple of weeks ago Ray Sterner of JHU/APL posted a pointer to a USA relief map mosaic he had created. This mosaic is now available. ageninfo's IP number is currently 128.194.173.6.

If you use the right browser, you get a Mosaic mosaic! 

--
Hal Mueller
hmueller@diamond.tamu.edu

Retrieve images from the News with a Web browser

From: bortz@cnam.cnam.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.d,comp.infosystems.www
Date: 24 Jan 1994 09:33:16 GMT
A new service is now fully operational on the Web to get images which were posted on the newsgroups, like alt.binaries.pictures.misc, alt.binaries.pictures.fractals, and alt.binaries.pictures.cartoons.

There is already an excellent server at T.U.Delft doing it, but images can be browsed only by their names. On this server: you can browse "contact sheets" (montages of small tiles) of the images and also "description files" (texts extracted from the original articles).

I would really like to have some partners in other countries to set up an equivalent service. Do not hesitate to email me!

Weather GIFs of UK/Europe

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Weather GIFs of uk/europe?
From: amoss@shuldig.cs.huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira)
Date: 14 Mar 93 23:07:37
Organization: Inst. of Comp. Sci., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
ucjtrjf@ucl.ac.uk (Jonny Farringdon) writes:
I've just got getwxmap .. and can now get a range of satilite GIFs + weather patterns for the US ... :-(

Is there a site where i can get these for the UK / Europe?

Thanks, Jonny. 


cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk  images/gif      European daily weather (inc UK and
                                      north europe)

liasun3.epfl.ch       /pub/weather/   weather gifs, inc big parts of the
                                      areas around Europe too

ftp.huji.ac.il        /pub/grahpics/weather
                                      Mid-East weather (Tunis and Italy
                                      to Jordan and part of S.A.,
                                      Egypt to Russia).
I've just setup the last one and its not very stable, I hope to impruve this with time.

Cheers, 

--
--Amos Shapira (Jumper Extraordinaire) |"It is true that power corrupts,
C.S. System Group, Hebrew University,  | but absolute power is better!"
Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL                |
amoss@cs.huji.ac.il                    |        -- the Demon to his son

Dirk Craeynest