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From: esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: 3D Xwindows-based, object-oriented graphics package
Message-ID: <2981@sodium.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 14:37:03 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.160154.19285@ra.src.umd.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
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From article <1991Jan25.160154.19285@ra.src.umd.edu>, by corson@src.umd.edu:
> 
> 
> I'm looking for a X-windows (xlib) based 3D GKS-style graphics package for 
> doing serious animation.  It needs to be linkable with C++ and run on a 
> Sun Sparc Station or Sun IPC (OS 4.1).  Does such an animal exist???
> 
> --Scott

HOOPS(tm) from Ithaca Software, which recently moved from
Ithaca, NY, to somewhere near SF in CA. It is not a GKS-based
package, however, but I used it successfully for 3-D static graphics,
which I animated later myself for a system modeling project. I ran it
on Sun 4/260 and later on SPARC 1. It is a C library, which
is linkable with C++. They have Xlib version, which you can
use as is or can modify, as I did, to work with, let say, the Xaw.
They, as I understand, have now either Motif, or OpenLook, or both
versions. Beside that they support a wide variety of platforms
including SunView, Mac, etc. Or, almost forgot, I liked it alot and
it got a good press. --Ed