home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.graphics:9549 comp.windows.x.pex:541 comp.unix.aix:9484 alt.graphics:339
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fhg!igd!pfuetz
- From: pfuetz@igd.fhg.de (Matthias Pfuetzner)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.x.pex,comp.unix.aix,alt.graphics
- Subject: Re: IBM's graPHIGS package, problem with GPNBS, any hint?
- Message-ID: <1493@igd.fhg.de>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 11:33:01 GMT
- References: <1484@igd.fhg.de> <Bu2BFs.Lzw@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Sep04.202508.35044@watson.ibm.com>
- Sender: news@igd.fhg.de
- Reply-To: pfuetz@igd.fhg.de (Matthias Pfuetzner)
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: Zentrum fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Darmstadt, FRG
- Lines: 39
-
- Hi again!
-
- In article <Bu2BFs.Lzw@well.sf.ca.us> levine@well.sf.ca.us (Ron Levine) writes:
-
- >I'm not sure this is your problem, but it's worth checking:
- >
- >I haven't worked directly with graPHIGS, but a couple of years ago, when
- >porting a graPHIGS demo application to DEC PHIGS, I discovered that for the
- >RATIONAL B-spline case, graPHIGS expects DIFFERENT data from DEC PHIGS,
- >SunPHIGS, and most of the other implementations. Namely, for the coordinate
- >4-tuple for the weighted control points, graPHIGS expects the application to
- >pass (x,y,z,w), while the other implementations expect (xw,yw,zw,w).
-
- As schultz@schultz.kgn.ibm.com (schultz) writes in <1992Sep04.202508.35044@watson.ibm.com>:
-
- >This is correct, although if the app passes the homogenous form, it usually
- >results in wierd-looking results instead of a blank screen. I guess it depends
- >on how big w is.
-
- It was worth checking, because it would have caused new questions, but it is
- right, still nothing can be seen. My weights are simply 1.0 and cos( 45 deg )
- = 0.70710676908493042. I need them for getting real circles and pieces of
- circles, for modeling tubes.
-
- But perhaps someone can help me by answering the following question:
-
- Are there any attributes in graPHIGS for non-uniform B-spline surfaces that
- apply only to them and that do not exist in PEX-SI? Perhaps I have overseen
- things like that that might cause the surface to be drawn white on white or
- something like that. I did check the manual pages and found nothing
- appropriate, but who knows...?
-
- Sincerly,
- Matthias
- --
- Matthias Pfuetzner | @work: +49 6151 155-150 | @home: +49 6151 75717
- 6100 Darmstadt, FRG | ZGDV, Wilhelminenstrasse 7 | Lichtenbergstrasse 73
- pfuetzner@igd.fhg.de, pfuetzner@zgdvda.UUCP | Keith Packard said:
- R5 is different from R4. That's why we changed the release number :-)
-