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From: bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 3D Widgets
Message-ID: <972@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 22:09:15 GMT
References: <403@mmlai.UUCP>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah
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From article <403@mmlai.UUCP>, by burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio):
> In article <1589@daisy.UUCP>, turner@daisy.UUCP (Jim Turner) writes:
>> 
>> At Xhibition HP stated that:
>> 
>> 1. they had done a set of 3D widget 'extensions' to the PD HP widget
>> set and that they were not free (and therefore not PD).

I'm a bit confused. The HP widgets LOOK 3D. The original request had
to do with 3D widgets for a machine that does real 3D graphics. You
know, real perspective and depth queing, vector end points specified
with x,y, and z coordinates? I thought he has asking for information
on widgets that could be placed in 3 space, maybe associated with
parts of a 3D structure so that they move with the image as it is
scaled, rotated, and translated. Near widgets appearing nearer and
brighter than far widgets.

So, can I get a clarification on this? Do you just want widgets to
LOOK 3D, like a command button that is shaded to look like a button on
an HP calculator, or do you want widgets that have position in 3
space, and that can be composed into 3D structures like normal widgets
can be composed into 2D structures?

			Bob P.

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