These twelve files -- named part01.ps.Z through part12.ps.Z -- contain
my dissertation, "Ray Tracing With Amalgams."  The compressed files are
in Postscript.  To (attempt to) print the files, uncompress them using
the unix utility 'uncompress' (or compatible utility), and send the
resulting ascii file to a Postscript printer.  The document is about
170 pages total.

(Sorry, but I can't guarantee the results.  I had MS-Word 4.0B on my Mac
create these files, and they are presumably identical to the Postscript
stream that successfully printed on the Laserwriter II at work.  However,
I haven't tried printing them myself.  I tried to restrict myself to
the four most common Postscript fonts -- Times, Helvetica, Courier, and
Symbol -- but a couple of others may appear in places.)

The dissertation describes a new data structure and traversal algorithm
for ray tracing.  In a nutshell, I investigate using renderable
bounding volumes to accelerate ray tracing.

As of August 1991, accompanying color images are available for anonymous
FTP on cs.utexas.edu in file /pub/misc/amalgam.tar.  The images are in
compressed Utah RLE format, and they occupy about 2.2 Meg in a unix tar
file.

Names and sizes of the compressed Postscript files here:

      21073  part01.ps.Z
      23334  part02.ps.Z
     102691  part03.ps.Z
      78403  part04.ps.Z
      85259  part05.ps.Z
      69099  part06.ps.Z
      51285  part07.ps.Z
      32229  part08.ps.Z
      23105  part09.ps.Z
      33508  part10.ps.Z
      28612  part11.ps.Z
      18591  part12.ps.Z

You can also get a hardcopy of the dissertation by contacting:

     UMI Dissertation Services
     300 North Zeeb Road
     Ann Arbor, MI  48106-1346
     USA
     800-521-0600
     +1 313 761 4700

(I don't know what UMI charges.)

-- Kelvin Thompson
   kelvin@cs.utexas.edu
   04 August 1991
