Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!metz From: metz@iam.unibe.ch (Igor Metz) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: PHIGS ??? Any books available? Keywords: phigs,graphics Message-ID: <1990Jun28.065941.25901@chx400.switch.ch> Date: 28 Jun 90 06:59:41 GMT References: Sender: news@chx400.switch.ch (USENET News System) Distribution: comp.graphics Organization: CS Dept., University of Berne, Switzerland Lines: 23 In article warren@atmos.washington.edu (David Warren) writes: >It's dumb question time. I loaded up PHIGS here on our VAX and I'ld >really like to learn how to use it. I figured out enough to get some >simple stuff up, but no more than I can do in GKS. Does anyone know of >any books on PHIGS. The DEC reference manual looks like it would be >fine if I already knew what I was doing. I know of 1 book describing PHIGS. It gives an overview: Brown, Maxine D. Understanding PHIGS : the hierarchical computer graphics standard / [Maxine D. Brown, author ; Michael Heck, technical editor] San Diego, CA ; Template, 1985. There is also a paper about PHIGS: Martin Plaehn: PHIGS: Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard, BYTE,1987, No. 11, p. 275--286 -- Igor Metz Institut fuer Informatik und angew. Mathematik, Universitaet Bern, Switzerland. domainNet: metz@iam.unibe.ch Phone: (0041) 31 65 49 90 ARPA: metz%iam.unibe.ch@relay.cs.net Fax: (0041) 31 65 39 65