This is a preliminary collection of images and pictures dealing with
Drosophila.  Your contributions are welcome if they will be of interest
to other fly biologists.  We recommend JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts
Group) or GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) formats for photographic
images.  For line drawings, Postscript and Mac PICT formats may be more
suitable.   As for content, please consider images of Drosophila
phenotypes, chromosome and gene maps, and others of scientific interest.

The files in this area will be stored as Binary files.  To fetch and
view these images via Internet Gopher, your gopher program either
already understands the image format, or can be taught to if your
computer has graphic display abilities and appropriate viewing software.
To fetch and view these files using FTP, you need to remember to set
the "binary" mode before "getting" any of these files.

There are freely available JPEG and GIF viewers for most graphic capable
computers.  These viewer programs include "xv" for X-Window computers,
and JPEGViewer for Macintoshes (I'll try to line up an MSWindows viewer
also).   

For Macintosh computers, the best such program is
JPEGView as it displays both the JPEG format and the GIF format
that these images are in.  Look in the popular mac archives including
Info-mac (sumex-aim.stanford.edu), U.Michigan (mac.archive.umich.edu)
or various mirrors of these sites. 

See this, probably out-of-date version of the Mac program at
this archive:
    ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/mac/jpeg-view-10.hqx

For Unix/XWIndows computers, find a program called "xv" which likewise
displays JPEG and GIF images.  That can be found at common Unix archives
that have XWindow software.

For MSWIndows computers, likewise look into MSWIndow archive sites.  One
I know about is at ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  I think there is an MSWIndows
program called JPEGview or something similar, which does only JPEG format
and something called wingif which does GIF format.

See these at this archive site:
  ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/ibmpc/jview100.zip and ./wingif14.zip

Also various commercial programs, like Adobe Photoshop, will display these
programs.  You may need to talk with computer professionals at your
site to obtain the best program to suit your computer.

I haven't put a Unix/XWindows xv program in here yet.


Please let me know of any problems or suggestions for these Drosophila
images.


-- Don Gilbert  (gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu)