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Here's a few simple raytracing programs that I have ported over to the NeXT. They work in full color and produce rgb images. There are README files and sample picture description files to play with, but there's no real documentation and no GUI front end. It's all text based and you'll need to use a terminal window to run it. (The tracers sure are fun to play with, though!) There's also an .app called "Viewer" that will allow you to view the pictures produced by the raytracers and convert them to .tiffs. The viewer requires a ".pic" extension on the files. (Sources are included so the adventurous could easily change that.) The files themselves are binary files which have two ints specifying the X and Y size of the image followed by X*Y*3 chars of interleaved rgb data. See the sources for more info. Have fun! -Don Yacktman Nov. 1, 1991
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.