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- From: luj@ecn.purdue.edu (John Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.pex
- Subject: Re: Future development of PEX/PHIGS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.221534.29469@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 22:15:34 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.170434.18221@hsr.no>
- Sender: luj@ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu)
- Reply-To: luj@ecn.purdue.edu
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computing Network
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- In article <1992Aug13.170434.18221@hsr.no>, jarl@hsr.no (Jarl Haugland) writes:
-
- |> Interesting questions are:
- |> * When (if ever) will the official PHIGS version have support for
- |> immediate mode?
- |> * Will PEX/PHIGS support additional advanced graphical techniques like:
- |> - double buffering
- |> - texture mapping
- |> - antialiasing
- |> - etc....
- |> My understanding is that OpenGL will support many of these when it's
- |> available, so PEX/PHIGS will have to speed up to be into the race...
- |>
- I guess that PHIGS/PHIGS PLUS can never speed up to support
- what you're demanding. By the time it did, another much better API would
- have probably widely accepted. Maybe PEX can catch up in supporting those
- functionalities.
-
- I seem to have been convinced by Alan Akin that OpenGL superior to PEX in that
- there is little need in reformatting the application's data structure for graphics.
- Correct me(or him :-)) if I am wrong.
-
- |> Finally, a different question. Is PEXIM publicly available (ftp'able)?
- |> And if it is, then where?
- |>
-
-
- PEXIM is available as contrib software in X11R5.
-
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- --
- -- John Lu
- luj@ecn.purdue.edu
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