From: Tim Jones <Tim.Jones@S...>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:43:20 -0400
Subject: The Full Thrust Image Archive - A Proposal (longish)
Introduction
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Having started the ball rolling, I feel I should close the loop on the
discussion. To summarise quite a few people felt that it would be very nice to
have WWW page devoted to FT ships contruction and painting as proposed by Mike
Miserendino <phddms1@cris.com>.
Primarily the contents would be how to build various ship models and color
photographs of finished ships that their makers have sent in.
Several people stepped up to providing the scanning resource and web
site:-
/***
Mathias Double <beowulf1@bu.edu> volunteered access to scanners but has no web
space. He also said he would scan any pictures sent and forward them to the
WWW site.
Jerry Han <jerry@uunet.ca> said he had virtually unlimited WWW space.
Michael Carter Llaneza <maserati@hypnotic.com> said he had a WWW site
<http://www.hypnotic.com/ImperialDispatches/id.html> nearly up and
could post pre-scanned & rectified & compressed images.
***/
Taking Ship Photographs
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I propose that those people interested take good color photographs of their
ships. I think the photographs need to be clear and with the ship filling the
majority of the background. Not little dots in a corner & fleets shots will
probably not work.
A well lit ship against a black background would probably be best. The
photographs should be normal snap shot size. I'd use 35mm film as anything
smaller is likely to be too grainy. Enclose a caption with each photograph,
written on the back of it, this is to appear with each image.
See the Imperial, Eldar & Tyranid ship lists at
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/at2u/sfleet.html
for the sort of quality we should be aiming for
NOTE I think that you can't expect to see the photo's again unless you enclose
a Stamed Adressed Envelope.
The photographs then need to be mailed to Mathias Double who volunteered to
scan them in. NOTE Mathias needs to give us his postal address.
Scanning Ship Images
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He will scan them in at a sensible resolution (150 dpi) for final display size
and then format them to standard size (about 300x150 pixels) and color maps
range (256 color) GIF format
and perform any image manipulation required - cropping, gamma
correction etc. He will also produce a thumbnail of each image (100x75).
He will enter the caption against each GIF in a file named after the image
file (I hope all this is OK Mathias). These will be compressed (zip) and sent
to the target WWW site by MIME encoded email (unless the site has ftp access).
Construction instructions can be submitted in ASCII text to the site or sent
in GIF format. Its up to you to produce them in a form the site can accept.
The WWW Site
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The BIG question is where do we put them, I don't think I can make the
decision
but consider:-
o It would be nice to keep all the FT stuff in one place, Mark's Unofficail FT
page is nice but does he have the space for megabytes of GIF's on his account?
o Jerry & Michael have both offered space.
Jerry has a FT page with all the mailing list digests already
http://www.uunet.ca/~jerry/ft/full-thrust.html
Michaels site is a WWW SF magazine 'Imperial Dispatches' which will have an FT
page
http://www.hypnotic.com/ImperialDispatches/id.html
o We need to choose a site that has a fast enough server for image rich pages.
o a site with ftp access might be better for image uploading.
Once the site is chosen then the scanned images will be displayed along with
any caption supplied. It would be good webiquette to put thumbnails up with
links to the full size image from the thumbnail.
We can then let other SF net resouces know the URL - Hooray