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- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Graphics (was Re: Floating Point)
- Message-ID: <BxMuup.Kus@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:28:00 GMT
- References: <Bwqzzp.5z1@sci.kun.nl> <Bx4Cpt.87I@starnine.com> <BEVAN.92Nov3171422@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk>
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- In article <BEVAN.92Nov3171422@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >In article <Bx4Cpt.87I@starnine.com> mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:
- > This concept needs to be extended to such simple graphic concepts
- > such as DrawLine(), DrawPoint(), GoTo(), etc, as well as the
- > more complex needs such as 3d transformations, scaling, etc.
- >
- >I thought it already had: first there was GKS, now there is PHIGS and
- >RenderMan. Whether they are quick enough (or even supported) on your
- >platform is another matter of course :-)
- >
- >bevan
-
- Perhaps the best argument for not adopting a current methodology,
- at least to the point where it is impractical to map the decided-upon
- interface onto any existing underpinnings.
-
- As an aside, I think it is interesting that Forth has no
- standard graphics interface, perhaps never will, and one
- of the most popular existing graphics languages is an interactive
- Forth-cousin called PostScript.
-