rehm@cs.washington.edu (Eric Rehm) (06/25/91)
Has Stardent published a book on DORE? Is it available on workstation platforms other than Stardent? I'd also like to hear comments on how DORE is being used (if anyone is using it....) /eric
bcorrie@csr.UVic.CA (Brian Corrie) (06/25/91)
rehm@cs.washington.edu (Eric Rehm) writes: >Has Stardent published a book on DORE? >Is it available on workstation platforms other than Stardent? >I'd also like to hear comments on how DORE is being used >(if anyone is using it....) >/eric I would be interested in this as well. From the magazine ``Computer Graphics World'', I have discovered that Ithaca Software (Ithaca N.Y.) has made a deal with HP to use Ithaca's Advanced Rendering Technology in Hoops. They say it may give Pixar's RenderMan a run for its money in the Rendering Interface arena. When Stardent gave a demo here a year or so ago, there stuff looked interesting as well in this area, although it seemed a little more on the low level side. Can anyone give me some info/references on either of these packages... Thanks, B -- Brian Corrie (bcorrie@csr.uvic.ca) Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Sounds like some of the code I have written...... 8-)
rick@xing (Richard Ottolini) (06/26/91)
dore@stardent.com used to answer questions. I haven't tried in some time. Dore is a PHIGS-like language. I wrote many applications in a few years ago. Stardent sells the source code for a low price ($250 for universities), but it ran much slower on non-Stardent computers. There is a user's group that collects non-Stardent ports. My Stardent salesman this year has been encouraging me to use AVS instead of Dore.
scooper@athos.rutgers.edu (Simon Cooper) (06/27/91)
>Has Stardent published a book on DORE? > >Is it available on workstation platforms other than Stardent? > >I'd also like to hear comments on how DORE is being used >(if anyone is using it....) >/eric Dor\'e is available for SGI machines from Intelligent Light, 201/794-7550. The demonstration version that we evaluated (several months ago) did not have the DUI interface. (DUI is a GUI that allows one to attach buttons to actions in a Dor\'e program). Dor'e is one of the tools that we use on Stardent and SGI machines for Scientific Visualization. Simon.
ullmer@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Brygg Ullmer) (06/27/91)
> Has Stardent published a book on DORE?
Stardent publishes a whole series of books/manuals on Dore, but I am not
certain they are distributed separately from the purchased package.
I believe Dore is available on a number of computers... at least it was
announced to be released on computers other than the Stardents, though
perhaps in a less powerful implementation.
With regard to Philippe Suignard's (philippe@cli52ch.edf.fr) reference to
AVS, AVS is a full-blown visualization package/environment offering advanced
display and manipulation of images, geometries, and multidimensional data.
Dore, in contrast, is an object-oriented graphical programming language
extension to C (as well as Fortran, and perhaps other languages). While
I believe AVS may be partially coded in Dore and many concepts/operations
from Dore carry over into AVS, the two entities are fundamentally different
in that Dore is a language, while AVS is an application. AVS should be
available on a number of computers by this point as well, though probably
in a less powerful implementation than the Stardent version.
If there are any other specific questions on Dore or AVS, I have done limited
programming in Dore, and extensive work in AVS...
Brygg Ullmer (ullmer@thor.math.scarolina.edu)