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- From: watzka@stat.uni-muenchen.de (Kurt Watzka)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: 3D modeling algorithms
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 15:39:53 GMT
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
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- ghporter@NetXpress.com (Glenn H. Porter) writes:
-
- >Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >>In article <316A58F0.6549@riq.qc.ca>
- >> Martin.Legendre@riq.qc.ca "Martin Legendre" writes:
-
- >>>Hi,
- >>>
- >>> I'm looking for a book or anything else that would be a great source
- >>>of 3D algorithms.
-
- >>Please post graphics related questions to a graphics related newsgroup.
- >>comp.lang.c is for is for questions about and discussion of the C language.
-
- >Mr. Kirby,
-
- >Did you ever think that perhaps Mr. Legendre was looking for c code to
- >handle graphics?
-
- If someone is looking for code, a good forum to look for it might contain
- something like "sources.wanted" in its name. There is a very interesting
- group on "graphics.algorithms" somewhere in the news hierarchy, and good
- answers for questions on 3D algorithms can be found there.
-
- >A lot of graphics systems use c because of its portability. Isn't
- >that one of the great things about c?
-
- Graphics and protability are somewhat contradictory objectives in
- most, but not all programming languages. Esp. in C, there is _no_
- built-in _standard_ graphics library, so the protability of graphics
- depends on the portability of the graphics library you use.
-
- The device independent part of a graphics library can be written in
- C, and will be portable, but I dare say that a small part of any
- real graphics library must be non-portable by nature. This part
- can still be written in C, but "portability" cannot be the reason
- to select C as a tool for that job.
-
- Kurt
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