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- From: markd@NeoSoft.com (Mark Diekhans)
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- Subject: [comp.lang.tcl] Tcl interface to SIPP 3D rendering library available.
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- Date: 5 Nov 1992 13:46:32 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.lang.tcl/Tcl-interface-to-SIPP-3D-rendering-library-available
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- The following 3D rendering interface is now available via anonymous ftp:
-
- barkley.Berkeley.EDU:tcl/extensions/tsipp3.0a.tar.Z
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- Please let me know if your have any questions, comments or problems.
-
- markd@grizzly.com
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- === Tcl-SIPP 3.0a ===
-
- This package provides a Tcl command interface to the SIPP rendering
- program. SIPP, the SImple Polygon Processor, is a library for creating
- 3-dimensional scenes and rendering them using a scan-line z-buffer algorithm.
- Tcl is an easy to use, powerful, interpretive programming language, that is
- designed to be imbeddable in applications.
-
- Tcl-SIPP is a set of Tcl commands used to programmed SIPP without having to
- write and compile C code. Commands are used to specify surfaces, objects,
- scenes and rendering options. Scenes may be rendered to files in the PPM
- format or in Utah Raster Toolkit RLE format.
-
- This interface greatly speeds the development of scenes because no compile
- and link phase is required. Data is represented in a simple ASCII form.
- This is particularly useful when for producing 3D scenes from ASCII data
- generated by other programs. Since most of the work in creating a scene is
- still done in libsipp, the is only a small performance cost in programming from
- Tcl.
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS
- ============
- The following software packages are required to build and use Tcl-SIPP:
-
- o SIPP 3.0 - The SImple Polygon Processor
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/graphics/graphics/packages/sipp/sipp-3.0.tar.Z
- isy.lie.se:/src/sipp-3.0.tar.Z (note: this site is in Sweden)
-
- o Tcl 6.4 - The Tcl command language
- sprite.bekerley.edu:/pub/tcl/tcl6.4.tar.Z
-
- o TclX6.4c - Extended Tcl, an add on package for Tcl.
- sprite.bekerley.edu:/pub/tcl/tclX6.4c.tar.Z
- barkley.bekerley.edu:/tcl/extensions/tclX6.4c.tar.Z
-
- o Utah Raster Toolkit (optional) - This tool kit is great, check it out.
- cs.utah.edu:/pub/urt/urt-3.0.tar.Z
- cs.utah.edu:/pub/urt/urt-3.0.patch1
- cs.utah.edu:/pub/urt/urt-3.0.patch2.Z
-
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