jmleonar@CRDEC-VAX2.ARPA.UUCP (10/27/87)
Folks,
After procrastinating for quite some time, I finally sat down and wrote
some code to use the 8-plane color GPX we've had since Xmas. I was pleasantly
surprised that an afternoon's work was sufficient to modify our in-house (and
PD) Tek 4010/4105 graphics library to work on the GPX! No, it doesn't use
the FANCY features of the GPX, but it does "tek-like" displays real well...
I'm interested in hearing if others on the net:
(a) use GPXen in the area of molecular modeling and/or computational chemistry
(b) have developed other packages that make the GPX jump (that can be
distributed w/o significant cost - can you say PD?)
(c) are interested in using the GPX, but can't find code that works
The code is written in VAX/VMS Fortran (yes, I use the extensions to get
the code written and debugged faster - much fewer line numbers and much better
structure), and uses the UIS routines. Obviously, the drawing rate is faster
than the Tek's at 9600 baud, but then one would expect this...
If I get more than one or two responses, I'll summarize to the net. It
seems that te GPX hasn't "hit it" as an applications environment, at least not
in the chemical graphics field. Hopefully, this will change over time...
Thanks in advance,
Joe Leonard
<jmleonar@crdec.arpa>
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