quasar@bellcore.com (Laurence R. Brothers) (01/10/91)
I'm playing around with XGL, Sun's new graphics language product. I'm having some difficulty applying transformations to points and point lists. Unfortunately, XGL is one of those manual+examples products, and all the examples show view transformations, not object or point transformations. Does anyone have any sample code showing the application of transformations to point lists? It seems like it should be easy, but it doesn't work correctly for me.... And another thing. XGL is a very low level language which doesn't shield the programmer from having to understand mathematical aspects of rendering and view transformation. It would be nice if there was a higher-level API to it so that routine applications wouldn't have to descend to the XGL level. There is what amounts to a macro package included with the demo applications, but of course there is no documentation for it. Laurence R. Brothers (quasar@bellcore.com) Bellcore -- Computer Technology Transfer -- Knowledge-Based Systems