pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) (05/14/91)
I suppose this is a FAQ, but the answer isn't in the FAQ yet. Got a user with a simple animation application, calls for multibuffering. To avoid reinventing the wheel, does anyone know of any freely-available libraries supporting this? On a Sun under SunOS, if it makes any difference. Thanks. If I get promising replies I'll summarize here. -- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) (05/15/91)
In article <1991May14.001044.29882@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, I write: > I suppose this is a FAQ, but the answer isn't in the FAQ yet. Got > a user with a simple animation application, calls for multibuffering. > To avoid reinventing the wheel, does anyone know of any freely-available > libraries supporting this? On a Sun under SunOS, if it makes any > difference. Thanks. If I get promising replies I'll summarize here. Thanks to bernie@ecr.mu.oz.au (Bernie Kirby): > Anonymous FTP to gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au [128.250.1.63] pub/vogle.tar.Z > > It has pseudo-double buffering but it may be to slow for you as it's > a 3D library. and Adrian J Ho <adrianho@barkley.Berkeley.EDU>: >You might want to draw your user's attention to xgrasp, an animation >package written by someone at Sun (I forget his name). He's done a >pretty good job of doing fairly fast "page-flipping" of individual >images to create the illusion of animation. Your user may find >something useful in there. Xgrasp is available for anonymous FTP at >the usual site: > > export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xgrasp.tar.Z [18.30.0.238] and Amotz Maimon <amotz%amil.co.il@RELAY.CS.NET>: >Try the multibuffer extension on the MIT ditribution:- > >/usr/local/X11R4/mit/extensions/server/multibuff.c. and riley@mips.com (Riley Rainey): >The X air combat simulation, ACM, has a simple 3-D library that includes >double buffering. Check out contrib/acm.2.2.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu. Thanks also to rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson). Replies from the US, Australia, and Israel... hello, global village! -- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)