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From: jch@apollo.HP.COM (Jan Hardenbergh)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Phigs Book Recommendations Wanted
Message-ID: <459434db.1a463@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 19:10:00 GMT
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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> From: robert@perv.pe.utexas.edu (Robert R. Schneider)
> Subject: Phigs Book Recommendations Wanted
> Date: 8 Sep 89 19:17 GMT

> I would be interested in any recommendations that anyone may have for a
> good book(s) on programming with Phigs.  I have a number of users who have
> a fair knowledge of programming in either FORTRAN or C and some knowledge
> of graphics in general but are asking for something that would tell them
> how to do things with Phigs.  The manual sets we have are pretty good at
> documenting function calls and the general use of how a particular function
> works but don't offer much in terms of a overall introduction to Phigs itself.
> If you have had any experience with any of the books which are out there on
> Phigs I'd appreciate finding out what is good or bad.

I think our tech writers did a great job of exploring PHIGS and writing
about it. Programming with Domain/PHIGS is to my knowledge the best book
on PHIGS that exists at this time. Non-biased, third parties have agreed
with this statement. It is chock full of "how tos", example code and
diagrams. The vast majority of it is generic PHIGS stuff ( not
Domain/PHIGS specific ).

        Programming with Domain/PHIGS    
        275 pages
        part number 009701-A00  

You can get it with a credit card by calling "Apollo Direct" 1-800-225-5290.

There is also, Domain/PHIGS Call Reference, part number 009702-A00 but
you probably have enough things like it. We also sell software and
hardware :-).

-Jan Hardenbergh     - jch@apollo.com -  (508)-260-6600x5773
Hewlett Packard / Graphics Technology Division at Apollo