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From: andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Looking for info on CGM ANSI Standard, XYVision
Message-ID: <1763@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 16 Feb 89 21:50:37 GMT
References: <171@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <2300001@hprnd.HP.COM>
Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
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In article <2300001@hprnd.HP.COM> tak@hprnd.HP.COM (Tom Keaveny) writes:
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>(btw, I woudln't mind a synposis or two myself...)

The August 1986 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications was a
special issue on graphics standards; it includes articles on CGM, VDI
aka CGI, GKS-3D, PHIGS, reference models, language bindings, and an
intro to the players and procedures involved.

Of course, some changes crept in during the final phases of the
standard's preparation (after the magazine articles were written), but I
think it's a good place to start for an overview of CGM.  The article on
CGI (to which I made a modest contribution) is probably the least useful
of the bunch, given that the CGI is *still* not done and continuing to
experience massive rewrites.

If you can't find it at your nearest techie library, you might try
calling IEEE Computer Society to see if back issues can be ordered.


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
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