hudgens@ray.met.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) (01/28/90)
Hi. I posted a question in v8n203 concerning the lack of documentation on the Sun GX board. Several persons responded asking that I forward any information I recieved to them. Well, the only documentation I can find includes the article in SunTech Journal, and the files given by: /usr/include/pixrect/cg6*.h (thanks to someone who pointed this out, and whose message I've lost). So I decided to use the documentation in /usr/include/pixrect/cg6var.h and see if I could get quadrilateral fills on my own. After a few hours of work I managed to get it to work, and it really is suprisingly easy. I have a demo I'll mail to anyone interested. I really cannot understand Sun's position on this matter. The champions of "Open this, that, and the other" has come out with a peripheral which is almost entirely "closed"; almost completely undocumented. A peripheral which appears to have many, many features, most of which are unusable without buying either SunGKS or SunPHIGS (which I presume support the board). How about some documentation or inexpensive graphics libraries.... Jim Hudgens Dept of Meteorology, Florida State Univ. hudgens@ray.met.fsu.edu
evgabb@uunet.uu.net (Rob Gabbard) (02/05/90)
In article <4484@brazos.Rice.edu>, hudgens@ray.met.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) writes: > which appears to have many, many features, most of which are unusable > without buying either SunGKS or SunPHIGS (which I presume support the The GX has an excellent transform rate in wireframe under SunPHIGS. Its one of the fastest I've seen. Its a shame you can't do double buffering unless you use indexed color. Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb) _ /| Workstation Systems Programmer \'o.O' Structural Dynamics Research Corporation =(___)= U