Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!opusc!ullmer From: ullmer@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Brygg Ullmer) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Info on Stardent's DORE Message-ID: <1991Jun27.161430.6719@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 16:14:30 GMT References: <1991Jun24.212433.19363@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <1991Jun25.223403.27514@unocal.com> Followup-To: Brygg Ullmer (ullmer@thor.math.scarolina.edu) Organization: Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia Lines: 24 > Has Stardent published a book on DORE? Stardent publishes a whole series of books/manuals on Dore, but I am not certain they are distributed separately from the purchased package. I believe Dore is available on a number of computers... at least it was announced to be released on computers other than the Stardents, though perhaps in a less powerful implementation. With regard to Philippe Suignard's (philippe@cli52ch.edf.fr) reference to AVS, AVS is a full-blown visualization package/environment offering advanced display and manipulation of images, geometries, and multidimensional data. Dore, in contrast, is an object-oriented graphical programming language extension to C (as well as Fortran, and perhaps other languages). While I believe AVS may be partially coded in Dore and many concepts/operations from Dore carry over into AVS, the two entities are fundamentally different in that Dore is a language, while AVS is an application. AVS should be available on a number of computers by this point as well, though probably in a less powerful implementation than the Stardent version. If there are any other specific questions on Dore or AVS, I have done limited programming in Dore, and extensive work in AVS... Brygg Ullmer (ullmer@thor.math.scarolina.edu)