jch@apollo.COM (Jan Hardenbergh) (06/22/89)
> I'm looking for any info regarding a graphics file format > called CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile). Does anyone out there > know anything about this? Any pointers to references (or better > yet PD code to read CGM) would be greatly appreciated. Please > respond by Email, as I don't always get around to checking the > net. Thanks! > Brian Wainscott Graduate Student U.C. Berkeley > wainscot@math.berkeley.edu CGM is an ANSI standard for Graphics Metafiles. It is a file containing a geometric description of a picture. The standard number is ANSI X3.122-1986. You can get it from ANSI for (?)$40-50 ANSI / Attention Sales 1430 Broadway New York, NY 10018 (212)-642-4900 Apollo's Domain/PHIGS creates CGM metafiles for plotting. The CGM files can be run through our CGM interpretter to be plotted on a variety of plotters. I imagine most vendors in the graphics biz have similar stories. As for a PD interpretter, I haven't heard of any. It would help the CGM cause. -Jan Hardenbergh - jch@apollo - 508-256-6600