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RDSdraw!

Download RDSdraw V3.0 for DOS

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About RDSdraw:

RDSdraw will allow you to create RDS (Random Dot Stereo) - images; sometimes called SIRDS (Single Image Random Dot Stereograms) or just Stereograms. They are pictures with random dots and look terrlibly funny. If you look at them in a certain way (crosseyed viewing), you'll see 3D-objects coming out of the picture. You don't need any special tools (such as glasses, etc.), which makes them especially interesting and surprising.

RDSdraw is equipped with a graphical user interface which makes it very easy to use! Hundreds of convinced enthusiastic users :) create their own stereograms using this program.

Release notes:

VERSION 3.0:

Completely new user interface.

A lot changed... for example, the UNDO funcion: Ctrl-Backspace.

/RDSperc=n Option added (works only with the Black/White RDS image) gives the percentage of black pixels. (default=50)

Some example TGA-Images included (thanks to PETER GUNN, who made them all) Be careful when extracting these images (EXAMPLES.EXE is a self- extracting archive), because you'll need 800 KBytes on your disk!

Some bugs fixed

RDSdraw now allows you to edit your image again after calculating a RDS image. To do this, RDSdraw has to backup your image first in a temporary file. So run RDSdraw only, when 400kBytes or more disk- space are free. I strongly recommend a harddisk, because writing a non-compressed<g> image to a floppy disk, may take some time... To disable this feature, just run RDSdraw with the "/CalcEnd" option.

Invert function included. This feature inverts the hight while calculating the RDS-image. This is especially useful for those, who use the crosseyed viewing method (which always inverts the hight). Speed-optimized compilation. (I hope my BorlandC didn't optimize anything away! :-)

Better import of TGAs (RDSdraw won't say "Unknown TGA-type" any more. It'll start importing at once. This will help in most cases, but in some cases, the resulting imported picture will be just mess :-)

Better documentation (at least a bit :-)

New RDS-pattern (Try it! It doesn't look very good on screen, but save it as .TGA and display it again (with any .TGA-displayer, you'll be surprised!)

Faster TGA-saving routine

Import of non-upside/down-TGAs enabled

Some spelling mistakes fixed

small documentation :-)

VERSION 1.0 BETA:

First public release of RDSdraw

last update: August 22, 1997
© Copyright by Johannes Schmid