Realtime rendered planets: Venus, Earth and Mars (Bouns: Amiga Boing Ball).
C source code included.

Requirements:
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The executable included in this archive requires 68030 cpu and 68881 fpu or better.
A 68060 or PowerPC CPU and a fast 3D-accelerator is highly recommended.
You will also need StormMesa and Warp3D (available from Aminet).

Testet on Amiga 4000/060 with CyberVision64/3D,
AmigaOS 3.5, CyberGraphX 3, Warp3D 3.


Usage:
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Doubleclick one of the icons or start the program from CLI:

 Planet <Texturefile>

for example

 Planet data/Earth.bmp

You can also use your own textures.
Only 24 Bit uncompressed Windows BMP files supported.
Minimum size for textures is 64 x 64 pixels.


Books on C programming and OpenGL:
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Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie:
The C Programming Language

Andrew Koenig: 
C Traps and Pitfalls

Robert Sedgewick:
Algorithms in C

Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom David, Dave Shriner, Tom Davis:
OpenGL 1.2 Programming Guide

Renate Kempf and Chris Frazier:
OpenGL Reference Manual

Mark Kilgar:
The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) Programming Interface API

Kevin Hawkins, Dave Astle:
OpenGL Game Programming


World Wide Web:
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http://www.norman-interactive.com (my Homepage)

http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (University Stuttgart, Dept. of Computer Science)

http://www.ninemoons.com (GeekGadgets)

http://www.haage-partner.com (Haage & Partner Homepage)

http://www.sgi.com (Silicon Graphics - Inventor of OpenGL)

http://www.OpenGL.org (OpenGL Homepage)

http://www.gamedev.net (GameDev.net)

http://nehe.gamedev.net (NeHe Productions)

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[generic]                  121     225  53.8% -lh5- 4091 Feb  5 18:31 Planet/Boing Ball
[generic]                  129     236  54.7% -lh5- fb24 Feb  5 18:18 Planet/Boing Ball Fullscreen
[generic]                 5105    6583  77.5% -lh5- 483a Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Boing Ball Fullscreen.info
[generic]                 5107    6583  77.6% -lh5- d4b5 Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Boing Ball.info
[generic]                 3227    6151  52.5% -lh5- ced3 Feb 15 22:31 Planet/data.info
[generic]                  399   86070   0.5% -lh5- 788f Feb  4 21:05 Planet/data/Boing.bmp
[generic]                  720    2500  28.8% -lh5- 2ee3 Feb  4 21:05 Planet/data/Boing.bmp.info
[generic]              1850849 3110454  59.5% -lh5- 3d08 Feb  4 14:56 Planet/data/Earth.bmp
[generic]                 2570    2744  93.7% -lh5- f0f9 Feb  4 14:57 Planet/data/Earth.bmp.info
[generic]              2292419 3110454  73.7% -lh5- 7575 Feb  4 14:55 Planet/data/Mars.bmp
[generic]                 2639    2956  89.3% -lh5- 393a Feb  4 14:55 Planet/data/Mars.bmp.info
[generic]              1378106 2457654  56.1% -lh5- 96c3 Feb  4 14:57 Planet/data/Venus.bmp
[generic]                 2721    2916  93.3% -lh5- 4e73 Feb  4 14:57 Planet/data/Venus.bmp.info
[generic]                  120     227  52.9% -lh5- 9884 Feb  5 18:32 Planet/Earth
[generic]                  127     238  53.4% -lh5- 6191 Feb  5 18:22 Planet/Earth Fullscreen
[generic]                 2776    3223  86.1% -lh5- 67a8 Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Earth Fullscreen.info
[generic]                 2774    3223  86.1% -lh5- 3cf8 Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Earth.info
[generic]                  117     225  52.0% -lh5- fc73 Feb  5 18:33 Planet/Mars
[generic]                  125     236  53.0% -lh5- 37f4 Feb  5 18:21 Planet/Mars Fullscreen
[generic]                 5105    6583  77.5% -lh5- f56e Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Mars Fullscreen.info
[generic]                 5108    6583  77.6% -lh5- e3ec Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Mars.info
[generic]                17979   41288  43.5% -lh5- 05c3 Feb 15 22:13 Planet/Planet
[generic]                 3235    6151  52.6% -lh5- fc76 Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Source.info
[generic]                 1259    3844  32.8% -lh5- fcf8 Feb  5 13:17 Planet/Source/bmp.c
[generic]                  760    2203  34.5% -lh5- cc59 Feb 15 22:09 Planet/Source/bmp.h
[generic]                 2009    5656  35.5% -lh5- 29b3 Feb  5 16:00 Planet/Source/Planet.c
[generic]                  346    1123  30.8% -lh5- 36a4 Feb  5 16:06 Planet/Source/requesters.c
[generic]                  206     333  61.9% -lh5- 00cd Feb  5 15:59 Planet/Source/requesters.h
[generic]                  120     227  52.9% -lh5- 57e8 Feb  5 18:34 Planet/Venus
[generic]                  127     238  53.4% -lh5- 8230 Feb  5 18:23 Planet/Venus Fullscreen
[generic]                 5125    6583  77.9% -lh5- 9c81 Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Venus Fullscreen.info
[generic]                 5109    6583  77.6% -lh5- 762a Feb 15 22:31 Planet/Venus.info
[generic]                 3235    6151  52.6% -lh5- 26d5 Feb 15 22:31 Planet.info
[generic]                 1006    1896  53.1% -lh5- e154 Feb 15 22:57 Planet.readme
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 Total        34 files 5600880 8898340  62.9%            Feb 16 15:53