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When Joe Reiss (jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) posted a collection of color fish for use with AquariumView.BackModule, I was inspired. I set out to assemble another suite for all the devout NextStep ichthyophiles out there, with the following goals in mind: 1) Individual fish should be compatible in an aquarium environment. In some other collections, fish would have died from unsuitable salinity, or from being eaten by the other fish. 2) Fish should be in proper scale with respect to one another (more or less). 3) Fish should be scanned in full 24 bit color, to show off the snazziness of our hardware. The present collection of nine achieves these goals. Our friends are in 24-bit color with alpha, 72 dpi. As shipped, they come in a directory called "fresh" (all are fresh-water critters), which you can rename "FishFolder" depending on your version of the AquariumView module, and your personal preference. This directory also includes brief .info files on each. They look best on a black background. Thanks to Joe Reiss for pointing out that the fish images had to be square. Now, to folks out there with the AquariumView source, a manifesto: Let us rewrite it to accept .anim directories of fish-frames, so that, finally, we can lay to rest the only remaining solid argument for using Windows or Mac as opposed to NextStep! Cheers! Alex (alevine@ucsd.edu)
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