jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) (04/28/89)
I'm looking for any information on PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standard). Is it P/D or commercial? Is the standard on line anywhere? Any good books/articles on it? Ect., ect. -- jdm@hodge.cts.com [uunet zardoz vdelta crash]!hodge!jdm James D. Murray, Ethnounixologist Hodge Computer Research Corporation 1588 North Batavia Street Orange, California 92667 USA TEL: (714) 998-7750 Ask for James FAX: (714) 921-8038 Wait for the carrier
loren@amcom.UUCP (loren cahlander) (04/28/89)
In article <12021@hodge.UUCP> jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) writes: > > I'm looking for any information on PHIGS (Programmer's > Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standard). Is it P/D > or commercial? Is the standard on line anywhere? Any > good books/articles on it? Ect., ect. I would also be interested in this information. -- Loren D. Cahlander AMCOM Software, Inc. 5555 West 78th St Suite Q UUCP: uunet!rosevax!nis!amcom!loren Minneapolis, MN 55435 (612) 829-7445
miq@chromavac.SGI.COM (Miq Millman) (05/01/89)
In article <10@amcom.UUCP>, loren@amcom.UUCP (loren cahlander) writes: > In article <12021@hodge.UUCP> jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) writes: > > > > I'm looking for any information on PHIGS (Programmer's > > Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standard). Is it P/D > > or commercial? Is the standard on line anywhere? Any > > good books/articles on it? Ect., ect. > > I would also be interested in this information. > -- > Loren D. Cahlander AMCOM Software, Inc. > 5555 West 78th St Suite Q > UUCP: uunet!rosevax!nis!amcom!loren Minneapolis, MN 55435 > (612) 829-7445 Template Graphics Software, Inc. 9685 Scranton Road San Diego, CA 92121 Manufactures a package called Figaro, which is Phigs for various workstations. You might try them out. I have no relationship with TGS other than I know they exist. Whether they know I exist is debatable. -- "What is the greatest joy?" "The joy of duty!" Miq Millman -- miq@sgi.com or {sun,decwrl,pyramid,ucbvax}!sgi!miq 415 960 1980 x1041 work
ftrue@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Dr. Destruction) (05/02/89)
In article <12021@hodge.UUCP> jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) writes: > > I'm looking for any information on PHIGS (Programmer's > Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standard). Is it P/D > or commercial? Is the standard on line anywhere? Any > good books/articles on it? Ect., ect. > PHIGS is a ANSI/ISO standard (DIS 9592 Pt 1-3, 1988), meaning that it is not really P/D or commercial, it is simply a government standard. It's implementation in various software packages is P/D & commercial, although to date I have only seen commercial applications. As PHIGS is relatively new, and more than a bit involved, I don't think there are too many P/D PHIGS implementations around yet...I could be wrong. The only books I have used (beyond the actual standard) are: 1) Brown, M., and Heck, M., _Understanding_PHIGS_, Megatek Corportation, San Diego, 1985. 2) National Computer Graphics Association, _Standards_for_the_Computer_ Graphics_Industry_, Fairfax, VA, 1986. and several articles in the "IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications" journal. The actual standard is available from the GPO or from Global Documentation, Irvine, CA - (714) 261-1455. Global is an excellent (albeit expensive) source for Government/Mil spec docs FAST. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick True ftrue@hmcvax.BITNET ftrue@jarthur.claremont.edu Harvey Mudd College Life before coffee is no life for me. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
jch@apollo.COM (Jan Hardenbergh) (05/03/89)
> I'm looking for any information on PHIGS (Programmer's > Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standard). Is it P/D > or commercial? Is the standard on line anywhere? Any > good books/articles on it? Ect., ect. The following was an incomplete answer. Template is one of many vendors supporting PHIGS. It runs on almost every workstation either by a vendors native (Apollo/HP, Sun, DEC, IBM) implementation or by Template's. > Template Graphics Software, Inc. > 9685 Scranton Road > San Diego, CA 92121 I'm pretty sure there are no public domain PHIGS implemtations. In 1991 or so PEX ( PHIGS extension to X ) is scheduled to be released from MIT. That will be a public domain implementation. The standard is not online anywhere because ANSI gets a decent amount of it's revenue buy selling those olive green books. The standard is ANSI X3.144-1988. ANSI says they should have it soon. You can send $50.00 to ( $45.00 + $5.00 shipping ) ANSI / Attention Sales 1430 Broadway New York, NY 10018 If you can't wait for ANSI to publish it you might still be able to get the 87 draft from Global (?Engineering) by calling (800) 854-7179. Good books? Of course the easiest way to get the best PHIGS info is buy ordering Programming with Domain/PHIGS 009701-A00 Domain/PHIGS Call Reference 009702-A00 from Instant Apollo 1-800-225-5290, have your credit card ready. They are somewhere around $35.00. Domain/PHIGS is based on the Oct 87 draft which became the standard (PHIGS88 to distinguish it from PHIGS PLUS). PHIGS+ Version 3.0 was published in ACM Computer Graphics July 1988. It has been adopted by the same standards body that did PHIGS X3H3.1. There is also a short book called Understanding PHIGS from Template and a Video tape from RPI (518)266-6752. Have fun. Jan Hardenbergh - jch@apollo.com - (508) 256-6600 Apollo Computer, 300 Billerica Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824
garyb@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM (05/09/89)
I recently ordered the PHIGS standard from ANSI. It is my understanding that X3-144 also comes with X3-144.1, the PHIGS FORTRAN language bindings. Hence my question: When can we expect to see the equivalent C language bindings from ANSI? I realize that these bindings are probably undergoing standardization as I speak. I would even bet that there is probably a reasonably stable working draft or dpANS somewhere. So does anyone know what stage of the standards pipeline the C (and other) language bindings for PHIGS are in? Pointers to the appropriate standards committee/chairperson(s) would be appreciated. Question for someone in the know (perhaps there's a committee member somewhere who actually reads comp.graphics): Is there a commercial version of PHIGS that the C language bindings are being substanitially derived from ? -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Gary Barton | Harris Computer Systems Division | | Software Development | 2101 W. Cypress Creek Rd. | | garyb@ssd.harris.com | Ft. Lauderdale. FL 33309 | | {uunet,mit-eddie,novavax}!hcx1!garyb | (305) 974-1700 | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) (05/11/89)
In article <94000007@hcx1>, garyb@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes: > When can we expect to see the equivalent C language bindings > [for PHIGS] from ANSI? > > I realize that these bindings are probably undergoing standardization > as I speak. I would even bet that there is probably a reasonably > stable working draft or dpANS somewhere. So does anyone know what > stage of the standards pipeline the C (and other) language bindings > for PHIGS are in? Pointers to the appropriate standards > committee/chairperson(s) would be appreciated. The C language binding is (as far as I know) still a Draft Proposed international standard. Last I heard, the second draft is scheduled to be available for review in the very near future. The plan is to have a Draft International Standard by the end of the year provided that there is a DIS for C by then (they don't want to have the C binding not conform to the C standard!). The extended Pascal binding is on the same schedule, Ada should be a DIS by now with an actual standard expected by August. The related committees are ISO SC24/WG4 which is chaired by Barry Shepherd of IBM (817-962-4269) and ANSI X3H3.4 which is chaired by Madeleine Sparks of Unisys (205-535-2545). ---- Larry Jones UUCP: uunet!sdrc!scjones SDRC scjones@SDRC.UU.NET 2000 Eastman Dr. BIX: ltl Milford, OH 45150-2789 AT&T: (513) 576-2070 "You can't get a body like mine in a bottle -- unless you push REAL HARD." - Judy Tenuta / Dr. Pepper