Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ADS.ARPA!Info-Graphics-Request From: Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.graphics Subject: Info-Graphics Digest Message-ID: <8612071112.AA11876@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 7-Dec-86 06:00:18 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612071112.AA11876 Posted: Sun Dec 7 06:00:18 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Dec-86 09:04:20 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Graphics@ADS.ARPA Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 124 Approved: info-graphics@ads.arpa Info-Graphics Digest Sun Dec 7 03:00:19 PST 1986 - Send submissions to Info-Graphics@ADS.ARPA - Send requests for list membership to Info-Graphics-Request@ADS.ARPA Today's Topics: Request for info: GKS features contour mapping software Graphics/User Interface Packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 86 16:22:09 PST From: KENNELLY%TOM@ames-io.ARPA Subject: Request for info: GKS features I am posting these inquiries for a friend who doesn't have direct access to the net. Please send responses directly to either woo@nyu-acf4 kennelly@ames-aero. Thanks in advance. -- Alex Woo ================================================================= While hardly DETERMINED to use GKS, I'm intrigued by the prospect of a graphics package which is (1) Really a standard (i.e. not DISSPLA, and not DI-3000 either) (2) Widely available (???) (3) Cheap, thus feeding (2) (not DISSPLA or DI-3000, again) (4) Useful - both GKS and DI-3000/CORE appear to be Spartan in availbility of middle-level utilities, while DISSPLA is baroque. (5) Not a religious issue (no candidates, apparently) In particular, I'd really like to have a portable QPLOT, PLOTCL, maybe even PLOT3D, etc. [graphics applications written a NASA-Ames] and it seemed to me that maybe GKS would do the job for the 2-D stuff for now, with hope for 3-D in the future. What I'm unsure of is points (2) and (4) - especially the missing utilities. I had the idea that Sterling Software (NASA contract) or someone else might develop such a set tailored to GKS and perhaps using ideas from commercial packages or NCAR. Thus we could send applications to other users along with a MODEST sized library, which would work with their GKS on their equipment. Comments? I don't know if this makes sense (no familiarity with GKS). Does anyone on the net have experience with both standards and wish to comment? What are the pros and cons with GKS, CORE, PHIGS, etc? How available are these "standards?" What mid-level utilities would be really useful for scientific graphics? Thanks, Rob. kennelly@ames-aero woo@nyu-acf4 ===================================================================== ------------------------------ 18:52:02 CST Date: Thu, 04 Dec 86 16:00:52 PLT From: Don HowesSubject: contour mapping software I am looking for mapping software to produce contour maps, which can run on either an IBM PC or an Atari 520 ST. It doesn't have to be fancy, and can be either a commercial product or PD (preferable). If the software runs on an IBM, I can compile C, Turbo Pascal or GW-BASIC. On the ST, I can compile C, Modula-2 or BASIC code. I really don't want to have to go back to first principles and develop the package from scratch. I hope that someone out there can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Don Howes (HOWESDW@WSUVM1.BITNET) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Dec 86 14:37:12 EST From: "Srinivasan Krishnamurthy" <1438%NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> Subject: Graphics/User Interface Packages. info-graphics@ads.arpa I am looking for information on graphics/user interface packages (for any PC/WKS, preferably IBMPC AT/XENIX or DOS) that provides flexible and powerful USER INPUT capabilities. Our main focus is on the following: *Ability to create Panels, where elements of the panel can be referenced as objects. *User definable menus, screens, and buttons. *Windows and multiple cuncurrent windows. *Tools to create figures (lines, squares, circles etc.) and invoke them as objects . *color. Kindly message me at the following address: srini%NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Thanks in advance. srini ***************** Srinivasan Krishnamurthy Comsat Labs (NTD RM7142) 22300 Comsat drive Clarksburg, MD-20871 (301)-428-4531 ------------------------------ End of INFO-GRAPHICS ********************