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From: mb7@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Begley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Info needed
Keywords: Vax  VMS  GKS  VWS
Message-ID: <16904@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 12 Nov 90 18:41:18 GMT
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  I would like to know what other engineers use for graphics visualization
on Vax computers running the VMS operating system.  We are currently porting
our data files to a PC and using Microsoft FORTRAN's new graphics library
so that we may use paging to create a kind of animation.  
  Our major models are in FORTRAN, so we like packages that may be called
as FORTRAN subroutines.  We have investigated Disspla and PV-Wave, but they
cost a bit more than we want to spend.  Same goes for DI-3000.  We currently
use GKS (free, with the VAX software library subscription), and I have dabbled
with VWS, VMS Workstation Software.  But without buying a Vax 3520 for double
buffering, we have to watch everything get erased and redrawn, hence the 
use of PC's.
  Does anyone know of GKS shareware for standard graphics functions?  It is
very tedious to develop applications in GKS, unlike Disspla.  I'd be happy
to scavenge from any GKS code I could get!

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Michael Begley
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Internet: mb7@prism.gatech.edu