Images and Photographs in Blackwood

Thoughts on Images / Graphics (useful sources for finding photos & lineart)

products --> catalogs.
locations --> stores, landscapes, streets (all without people).
people --> archive photos, catalog (mannequins), family photos.

Product People Images

The "product people" were given these instructions

Create a transparent GIF of your product.
- - use the Sears catalog or emulate the line drawing style - improvise something
- - scale: 30 pixels == 1 foot
name it with a DOS name (eight.dot.three), ALL LOWER CASE with a '.gif' file extension
upload to the blackwood directory of the www.cs server FTP instructions are below
Create a transparent GIF of a human figure.
- - Same scale as above (6 foot human == 180 pixels)
- - These may be anything you choose (as long as it's period-authentic). For example, a farmer cut out of an old family photo, a drawing of your own, a figure scanned in from the Sears catalog, yourself! from one of those picture portrait gallery arcades, or doctored with your new photoshop skills.
- - the PERFECT thing would be an image identifiable with your consumer group: a blacksmith, tailor, etc.
- - These do NOT need to be in the Sears line drawing style, but they can be.

Street People Images

The "street people" were given these instructions.

Obviously, a street scene
A default image for each of your hoods
same format as above except JPEG (.jpg) 600X250 pixels
upload as above (procedure described below)

Major Note: these MUST be unencumbered images, either of your own making or copyright-free, or used with permission.

- If you write to gain a permission, you must cc: me with all correspondance. If the reply is slow, but comes back in the negative, I will take care of removing the contested image. BUT YOU MUST DOCUMENT YOUR ATTEMPT and provide me with copies of everything
- You may refer to and use the correspondance at http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~slator/html/blackwood/sears-permit.html where I got permission to use the Sears material.
Note: the current archive of 200+ images used in Blackwood is at
http://lions.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~spanders/Blackwood/Images/ You can see them all at once by clicking the Preload.cgi link.

Instructions Common to both Product People and Street People

Assign the proper string to the .image_url property of the objects. Street people, room objects, Product people, products or consumer groups For example, if I upload 'mrshldln.gif' for the image of Marshall_Dillon, then I make the following assignment:

  > look me
    Marshall_Dillon
    Marshall Matt Dillon is a wizard and a giant of a man:
      tall and rangy with broad shoulders and rugged good looks.
      He is carrying a six-gun in a low-slung holster
        he wears spurs on his boots
        and pinned on his chest is the silver star of a
	U.S. Marshall.
    Marshall Dillon is the law in Blackwood - what he says, goes
    S/He is awake and looks alert.

  > #me
    => #2  (Marshall_Dillon)

  > ;#2.image_url
    => "defaultImage"

  > ;#2.image_url = "mrshldln.gif"
    => "mrshldln.gif"