markm@vpharm.com (Mark Murcko) (06/05/91)
Hello SGI Graphics Wizards,
We are just getting started with some graphics programming on
the SGI. We have good programmers here, but no one with much
graphics experience. We are looking for any and all examples
of "standard" graphics operations--how to use light sources,
set up a slide bar, do gouroud-shaded irregular solids, etc.
We realize that the manuals do contain most or all that we
need, but we are hoping that some kind person(s) can save us
lots of grief by providing working examples. Does anyone have,
or know of, any "example libraries" with source code that we
might be able to get hold of?
Thanks for any help you can give us. Please reply by e-mail.
Mark Murcko (markm@vpharm.com)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Cambridge, MA 02139shiba@sgi.com (Richard Shiba) (06/08/91)
All of the examples in the Graphics Library Programming
Guide are available online as of 3.3.x, if you have the
Software Development option. You'll need to load the
subsystem dev.sw.giftssrc from the development tape if
it's not already loaded. Then look in /usr/people/
4Dgifts/examples/glpg. Code is organized by chapters.
Rich Shiba
Silicon Graphics, Inc.rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) (06/08/91)
In article <1991Jun4.205716.24230@predator.vpharm.com> markm@vpharm.com (Mark Murcko) writes: +--------------- | We are just getting started with some graphics programming on | the SGI. ...We are looking for any and all examples | of "standard" graphics operations... | We realize that the manuals do contain most or all that we | need, but we are hoping that some kind person(s) can save us | lots of grief by providing working examples... +--------------- Assuming you have the Development Option (dev.*), you will want to install the "4Dgifts" package (dev.sw.giftssrc), which will drop a whole mess of stuff in /usr/people/4Dgifts. Excerpts from the README file: The subtree /usr/people/4Dgifts serves three essential functions: 1. LEARNING BY EXAMPLE. First and foremost, it is the area where example code lives. In many cases, the easiest way to become familiar with a library package is to be able to study examples of how that package's routines can be imple- mented. To generate executable programs from the source, go to the directory you are interested, and either type "make<CR>"--which will build an executable for every program in that directory--or type "make filename<CR>" *without* the suffix (".c", ".f", etc.) for the specific program you wish to study... [...the directory] examples has subdirectories with coding examples... listed in the document "Graphics Library Programming Guide" (GLPG), Version 2, are included in "glpg", C "grafix" programs, the four sample "light" programs dis- cussed in Versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the GLPG, "nurbs" (Non-Uniform Ra- tional B-Splines) sample programs, "network" (using 4.3BSD Internet and UNIX domain sockets on IRIS) sample programs, a virtual "trackball" implementation, "unix" programming samples, and a direc- tory with "video" examples.... iristools has a super-set of the libraries, image processing utili- ties, and tools that used to exist, prior to the 4D family-line, in /usr/people/gifts/mextools. the two directories ~/iristools/libimage and ~/iristools/libgutil contain the source used to build the libra- ries libimage.a and libgutil.a. These two libraries are in turn used to create executables in ~/iristools/imgtools and ~/iristools/tools. ..."sphere" which contains the source for mview (a molecule demo) which shows how functions in the new sphere library--libsphere--are used. The "tutorials" subtree contains a set of tutorial programs that, up to now, were only available to those people who attended the Graphics and Advanced Graphics classes taught by SGI. They do not cover every part of the GL but the parts that are included--color, light, ortho2, projection, basic drawing primitives, and modeling transformations-- are all implemented with a swank user interface that allows the user to interactively change the different parameters in real-time and see the effects these changes generate. All of these subdirectories each contain README files to give you more details regarding their contents. Have fun! -Rob ----- Rob Warnock, MS-1L/515 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311