john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook) (12/20/87)
I am interested in obtaining information on graphics subroutine libraries.
At this time my concerns are:
1. The library will be used for research purposes and must provide
high quality procedures for producing X-Y plots, contour plots
and perspective (3D) plots with hidden line removal.
2. The library should support GKS while not requiring more than level
2b support. We would like to be able to add our own devices as our
vendor-supplied GKS package will support this in the near future.
3. The library procedures should allow for multiple plots on a single
workstation. For example, we would like to be able to have both a
contour plot and an X-Y plot on the workstation screen at the same
time.
4. The library implementation language could be either Fortran-77 or
ANSI C. The library must provide bindings for Fortran-77.
5. Since we have a rather uncommon hardware / operating system
combination I expect we will have to purchase a source license
and port the system ourselves. Therefore the source has to be
available at a reasonable (say, less than $ 10K) cost.
6. It should be clear that we are looking for a well designed and
documented system and not a quick hack or old Fortran IV packages
hacked to work with GKS.
I am aware of the library available from SCD / NCAR. I have sent in
an order for the manual set. I'd also appreciate hearing from anyone
who has used this package.
I'll post a summary of the information I receive as well as putting
it on our ~ftp/pub partition for anonymous FTP. Of course, this is
assuming I receive any information.
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