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6.32. Where can I find computer graphics, pictures, and fine art?

The Usenet is rife with graphics and art. Check out the newsgroups alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.graphics (for those pictures created with computer graphics programs) and alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.digitized (for reproductions of paintings, drawings, prints, and so on). Discussion of the art on these groups takes place on alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.d. If you are interested in fractal imagery, look at alt.binaries.pictures.fractals.

The newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.erotica is where you can find pictures featuring human nudity or pornography. And in case you were wondering, alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless is for tasteless and bizarre pictures. Pictures that don't fit elsewhere can be found on alt.binaries.pictures.misc.

Archives of the Usenet fine-art groups can be perused using anonymous FTP. 

uxa.ecn.bgu.edu:/pub/fine-art.
Another art archive is available via FTP at the following: 
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS
There's an online art gallery accessible via Gopher at gopher.mta.ca. A WWW version that wasn't complete when I wrote this is available at the following: 
hhtp://cs1.mta.ca/FineArts/FineArts.html
Another computer graphics mecca is ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (located in Germany). Because cross-pond FTP is slow and wastes bandwidth, it is better to get it at a mirror site such as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/graphics/graphics/mirrors/ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.d.

For more information, read the alt.binaries.pictures FAQ. It is posted every other Monday to the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures. It is also available by anonymous FTP. 

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