Circuit Cellar Ink 12
December 1989/January 1990

Table of Contents

1 Curtis Franklin, Jr.	Editor's INK First Things First
5	Reader's INK Letters to the Editor
8	New Product News
12	Visible INK Letters to the INK Research Staff
14 Ed Nisley	INKnet Part 3 -- Writing Network Applications The Subtle Art of Programming for INKnet. A computer network is of little use if there's no application software to take advantage of the links. Writing software for INKnet is one way to learn the ins and outs of programming for distributed control. Download: NETDEMO.ARC
22 Chris Ciarcia	Image Synthesis: A Tutorial Tools for Drawing a New Universe The day has long since passed when "computer art" meant outlining a famous beagle on a dot-matrix printer. Today's computer artists can accurately render a standard living room, or an unseen world. This high-level tutorial introduces ray-tracing, shadowing, textures, and reflections, as well as other concepts important for creating images from digital data.
37 Daryl Rinaldi	An Intel 386SX-based PC/AT-Compatible Motherboard -- Part 2 In every case, a working computer is more than just the sum of its parts. Timing's importance cannot be overestimated when it comes to understanding why a particular design works as it does.
49 Winefred Washington	A Low-Cost MIDI Sequencer Build an 8031-Based Stand-Alone MIDI Sequencer MIDI opened up a new world of electronic music. Sequencers open up new vistas of control within that world. This project from the Circuit Cellar INK Design Contest lets you build a simple, functional sequencer for less than $75! Download: MIDISEQ.ARC
53 Ed Nisley	Firmware Furnace Simulated Reality -- Simulating Systems for 8051 Debugging
62 Jeff Bachiochi	From the Bench The Versatile Light-Emitting Diode
69 Tom Cantrell	Silicon Update MAXIMum Chips -- Maximum Real-World Problem Solvers
73	Advertiser's Index
74 Jack Ganssle	Software by Design Least-Squares Curve Fitting
78 Ken Davidson	Domestic Automation New X-10-Compatible Products Hit the Market
82 Ken Davidson	ConnecTime -- Excerpts from the Circuit Cellar BBS
88 Steve Ciarcia	Steve's Own INK .. And Everything in its Place

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