rhbartels@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Richard Bartels) (08/26/90)
Never thought I'd sink so low as to post a request like this. I am interested in any advice, wisdom, and pointers to purchasable libraries of 3-D graphics routines for IBM PCs (386's, DOS). Some mini version of GKS or a pseudo SGI/GL library would be ideal: some or all of basic transformations, hidden surfaces, line-point-arc-spline-polygon primitives, pick support, matrix stack, hierarchical display lists -- stuff like that. I would need to be told what the hardware requirements are, too, please. Reply by e-mail, so as not to clog the newsgroup with this nonsense. Beggin' yr pardons, sirs and madams (grovel, grovel). -Richard
corkum@csri.toronto.edu (Brent Thomas Corkum) (08/28/90)
Richard, Try HOOPS from Ithaca Software (415-523-5900), we have versions for both the SGI and the 386 PC using NDP C and Pharlap. It also supports a variety of other platforms. It has all the stuff you mentioned and more, and contains a object-oriented database for your graphics primitives that is second to none. It's not cheap though, so it depends on how much your willing to spend. Brent Corkum corkum@ecf.toronto.edu