[comp.graphics] animate a cube

davidd@wolf.cs.washington.edu (David Doll) (01/24/91)

Hello, I'm not usre what to do in my situation: 

I'll have some "c" code running, the user inputs some data - an expression, 
is then passed to Mathematica. While being crunched, it'll send periodic
data out to a render(?) which is generating a 3-D cube in some space, that's 
moving up x units, or down x units, etc. while the code is being crunched in 
Mathematica. when said code is done, all done. Everythings fine execpt for 
the graphics stuff. I'm running the main code and Mathematica on a SUN 4/110 
and the graphics is supposed to be on a DS5000/200 with the Trubo 3-D board. We
do have Phigs and/or GKS and the Foley, et a software online, but I'm not 
sure on what tool(?) to use. Any words of wisdom? Idealy if anybody had any 
sample stuff in any of the above or something else I could get and use would 
be a great help. Perhaps if somebody has a good explanation of the difference
of render's et al this could help me grasp what's need to put up a graphical
image of some data onto a computer. What's the difference between Foley's code
and the gks stuff or the phigs? Thanks for your time and help, I appreciate it.

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David Doll
Computer Science & Enginnering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
M/S: FR-35
davidd@cs.washington.edu