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From: sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (Gregory Sorensen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Press Release: Public PEX Implementation Underway
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Date: 13 Dec 88 22:28:56 GMT
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In article <8812121316.AA03593@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
>	   MIT X Consortium Launches Effort to Bring 3D Graphics
>		    Functionality to the X Window System
>
>The functionality being added to the X Window System is a network protocol
>known as PEX, or PHIGS/PHIGS+ Extension to X.  PHIGS, the Programmers
>Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System, is an international standard for 3D
>graphics.  PHIGS+ is an extension to PHIGS being proposed in the international
>community to support additional features for lighting, shading, depth cueing,
>and advanced curve and surface primitives.  


Question:  I have heard rumors that PHIGS+ has an image specification.
Is this so?  If so, how will this image spec compare with the proposal
which DEC and others have made for an X image standard specification?
What's the likelihood of them merging?

Thanks,

Greg Sorensen
sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu