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    Default New Mac utitlity to help with bitmap carvings

    Hello!

    I'm using the Compucarve for doodling and mathematical renderings.

    I found the round-trip time and effort between saving a bitmap file, importing it to the Carvewright software, and placing it, to be a bit steep, so I wrote a tool which automatically watches a file and redraws it, in 3d, when it changes.

    Now I can edit in photoshop or other program, save it, and see immediately the 3d version of it! When it's looking good and ready, I import it to Carvewright.

    I'm attaching a prerelease version of the software here. It's called ShowBoard (for now). It only reads a jpeg (or other image format) and displays it. It never writes a file, or accesses network stuff, &c.

    So, I'm curious -- is this of use to anyone but me? (Mac only, I know, I know...) If it were an honor-payment system, would $25 be out of line?

    At any rate, please enjoy this early version, bug reports and feature requests most welcome!

    Thanks --> David
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    Hi Polyomino.
    Sounds brilliant to me, and even though I don't have a mac, being a crusty old geezer, and set in my windows' ways, I'm sure the mac fraternity will welcome it.
    $25 for a viewer - I'm not sure, as I think it would be compared with the many freeware viewers that are out there, admittedly not 3D as far as I know, but I'd guess that's what you would be compared with.

    Just my groat's worth.
    Regards
    John
    PS I don't begrudge you any reward you can get for your work, and personally think that $25 is fine.

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    Very cool!
    Happy carving , Jeff Birt

    Check out www.soigeneris.com for CarveWright Accesories.

    Home of the 'Carving in the Dark' back lit LCD kit!

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    On the PC in Xara 3D. Here is how you can make a 3D on the PC. And actually that can be animated, but it won't go here as such :P

    Bob Hill
    Tampa Florida
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