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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
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Subject: Re: CGM HLHSR in SunPHIGS
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Date: 27 May 91 18:51:53 GMT
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In article <1991May25.230056.26508@news.arc.nasa.gov>
	mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov (Bill McKie) writes:
>Apparently, there is still
>no support for hidden line / hidden surface removal in the cgm output
>workstation type (phigswstcgmout).

I don't use SunPHIGS, but from what I read in Appendix H of the PHIGS
standard, CGM is 2D and not 3D.  I would suspect that this makes it
impossible for the workstation to support HLHSR, which is a 3D
concept.

						-- Rich
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