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From: suzuki@sai.vtt.fi (Makoto Suzuki)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Info. about PEX & 3D visualization needed.
Message-ID: <1570@vtsai2.sai.vtt.fi>
Date: 20 Feb 91 11:43:53 GMT
Reply-To: suzuki@vtsai2.sai.vtt.fi
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
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Dear networld, please allow me to make questions.

We are planning to make visualization tools on Sun and Tektronix.
(or any other WS which we will use in the future.)
We will use triangle polygons for surface rendering.
To make our tool machine-independent, we decided to use X-window.

We know that X-window offer us standard man-machine interface.(Or not?)
Now we need standard graphics library for 3D visualization.
I heard that PEX, PHIGS Extention is for 3D graphics on X-windows.
But I need more information about PEX, or any other 'standard' graphics
library.

Now, my question.
1)Does PEX can surface rendering using triangle polygons?
2)If not, are there any other recommended graphics library which we can
use for surface rendering on both SUN and Tektronix?

(or 3)Do we have to make visualization tools for each our WS? 8-) )

FYI: This tool will be developed not here but in my original
laboratory in the Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. This question has nothing to do
with my current workplace, Technical Research Centre of Finland.

Thanks a lot in advance,
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			 Makoto Suzuki
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	  | /   |   |	Technical Research Centre of Finland
	  |/    |   |	Medical Engineering Laboratory
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	INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 'I was born in Tokyo Japan.
	I have lived there since then. Now I came here as a
	scholarship student from September 1990 to June 1991.'
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