andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew D Nimmo) (11/17/89)
Our research group is currently looking for database creation tools, primarily for input into graphics applications. A structured text-based and/or graphics based system is considered suitable - welcome features would include PHIGS+ interfacing, C-like syntax, variable output format. The graphics applications are intended to cope with an extensive range of scene descriptions - polygons, splines, parameterised forms, patches, etc,. which the database tool would not need to know about. I would imagine that this type of tool has been done previously and would welcome any feedback. I would also like to hear of the suitability of using such tools as INGRES, AutoCAD, dBase, etc., with PHIGS+ as a intermediate processing step (for example) etc. Any public domain program (C for UNIX) would be considered by the group, and also commercial software (for Apollo DN3XXX/DN4XXX and DN10000 machines). Can anyone tell me where to obtain details of the PHIGS+ standard (perhaps in machine-readable form) or an address from where it may be purchased. Thanks, Andrew D. Nimmo -- | Andrew D. Nimmo, VLSI and Graphics Research Group, | | EAPS II, University of Sussex, Falmer, BRIGHTON, East Sussex, BN1 9QT | | TEL: +44 273 606755 x 2617 | | EMAIL: (JANET) andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk | (UUCP) ...mcsun!ukc!syma!andrewn |