Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:29790 comp.misc:10614 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucselx!bionet!agate!shelby!morrow.stanford.edu!hanauma.stanford.edu!joe From: joe@hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.misc Subject: Re: vplot(3) (?) documentation Message-ID: <1990Nov22.133802.1727@morrow.stanford.edu> Date: 22 Nov 90 13:38:02 GMT References: Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (UNIX News Service) Reply-To: joe@hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger) Organization: Stanford Exploration Project Lines: 33 In article , Sean.Levy@CS.CMU.EDU writes: |> ... which (sic) makes calls to some routines that appear |> to do things to a Versatec... I am fascinated by the way net descriptions of "vplot" inevitably degenerate it into a "versatec plot library". Can't figure out why this is popular to do. Anyway. Vplot is our research group's home-grown answer to device-independent plotting. It is meant to allow raster, vector, text, and polygons to be plotted on raster, vector, color, black and white, hardcopy, screen, etc, devices with no special care required of the user program. It is available, such as it is, from hanauma.stanford.edu's (36.51.0.16) anonymous ftp. It's in pretty good shape for a product that has evolved over 13 years and several generations of Geophysics grad students. After I'm through writing my thesis, which I am in panic mode trying to finish right now, I'd like to rewrite vplot to make its view of the graphical universe more postscript-compatible. Then I'd like to get somebody else to graft a postscript-interpreter front end on it. This would be a worthy net.project, as it would allow postscript to be plotted on raster, vector, color, black and white, hardcopy, screen, etc, devices... if you're interested in helping, let me know... later. Not now! After mid-January should be OK... I hardly read news these days, I'm just answering to forestall more people sending me e-mail saying "Joe you should reply to this guy". \ /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ \ / \ / \ /Dept of Geophysics, Stanford University \/\/\.-.-....___ \/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger joe@hanauma.stanford.edu apple!hanauma!joe\/\.-._ ** tick ****** tick **** tick! *** tick! ** tick! tick! tick! RING! **** WHAM **