Xet 1.0 is Now Available
                     ************************
 
What is Xet ?
-------------
        
     Xet is an X application program  based  on  X11R5.  Xet  has
     sophisticated  mechanisms  to create and to display animated
     images under X window.  I named the program  Xet,  X  Enter-
     tainment System, is because I intended to make Xet as a tool
     to create animated images for visual pleasure. If  you  find 
     Xet has practical usefulness please let me know.
 
System Requirements
--------------------
 
     Xet was developed on Sun/IPC/SunOS-4.1.1 and it hasn't been 
     ported  to other platforms yet.
 
     The implementation of Xet is divided  into  two  parts.  The
     first part contains Motif based user interface which is com-
     pletely implemented by using WCL-2.3. The  second  part  was
     written in C++. The installation of Xet requires the follow-
     ing: (1)  X11R5,  (2)  Motif-1.1.1,  (3)  WCL-2.3,  and  (4)
     Sun/C++-2.1. In order to operate Xet, it is required to have
     the  following:  (1)  Sun/Sparc  with  color  monitors,  (2)
     installed  pbmplus10dec91  programs,  and  (3)  djpeg  (only
     required for using jpeg/jpg images with Xet).
 
Highlight Of Xet Capabilities
-----------------------------
 
     1.  A comprehensive menu/form driven interface to create and
         to display animated images.
     2.  Xet provides 6 basic animation  models,  namely,  locus,
         random,  fly,  glide,  fixed, and blink. Basic animation
         objects can be chained to form movie objects.
     3.  The behavior of animation objects can  be  altered  with
         several key strokes at run time.
     4.  A menu/form interface to drive pbmplus programs.
     5.  Xet provides users with the  capability  to  use  either
         private color map or default color map and it can be
         altered at run time.
     6.  Clips can be overpainted on the drawing area.
     7.  Clips can be made by cutting regions on the drawing area.
     8.  Xet uses shape masks to animate non-rectangular images.
     9.  Xet provides mechanisms to utilize scaleable fonts in 
         X11R5 to create clips for animating text strings.
    10.  Animation sessions can be saved for playback/modification.
    11.  Animation sessions can be set up by  using  Xet  script.
         Xet script is a simple instructive language.
    12.  Plenty of demos came with the Xet distribution.
    
Where is Xet ?
--------------
 
It is located at contrib/xet-1.0.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu.
 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ko-Haw Nieh
December, 1992
nieh@netcom.com

=============================================================================