cn09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Kalevi Nuuja) (03/22/91)
Archive-name: graphics/animation/gplot/1991-03-20 Original-posting-by: cn09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Kalevi Nuuja) Original-subject: Re: free video movies Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Hi, I'm forwarding this message from a co-worker: Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 12:30:12 EST From: ANDREWS@CPWSCA.PSC.EDU (Phil) Message-Id: <910320123012.25003255@CPWSCA.PSC.EDU> Subject: RE: HDF vs CGM To: NUUJA@a.psc.edu, WELLING@SEURAT.PSC.EDU X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"NUUJA@CPWSCA.PSC.EDU" At the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center we have been using CGM successfully for movie sequences of all possible lengths for several years now. In fact all of our two-dimensional graphics is in CGM format. We view CGM files with our locally developed CGM interpreter, GPLOT which is freely available via anonymous FTP, as are libraries for the production of CGM files. The present official release of GPLOT (4.3) runs on UNIX (including UNICOS) and VMS and supports many output devices and two animation controllers: the pc-based Diaquest and the SONY LVR video disk recorder. A new version, in beta test now, is written in C++ and runs on UNIX and MAC systems, the UNIX version supporting animations on X-servers via a MOTIF interface. We hope to release a PC windows-based system in a few months and would much prefer that publicly available image sequences be in CGM format rather than HDF. Although both source and binaries are available via anonymus ftp we prefer that you first send mail to Anjana Kar (kar@psc.edu) for instructions and addition to our mailing list. -Phil Andrews (andrews@psc.edu)