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From: Sandeep Mehta@bebop (Sandeep Mehta)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: help wanted in 3d graphics on Sun-3
Keywords: use SunPHIGS!
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Date: 31 Mar 89 13:34:50 GMT
References: <819@mv07.ecf.toronto.edu>
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In-reply-to: apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese)

In article <819@mv07.ecf.toronto.edu>, apollo@ecf (Vince Pugliese) writes:
>instead of using SunCORE you should really be giving SunPHIGS a look!
>hope this helps

I strongly second that. I've been using SunPHIGS for a few months now
and it's a big leap w.r.t CORE type packages. It's also one of the
better implementations of PHIGS around. I was using FIGARO (from
Template Graphics) last year, and it was really a very painful
experience, stemming from the complete lack of C bindings, and poor
(IM(H)O) documentation. I also like the (relatively) transparent
upgradability of SunPHIGS to a graphics accelerator (e.g. GP+, GP2). I
assume all one would have to do is relink the libraries with the new
device drivers, and get a few orders of magnitude performance improvement.

sandeep
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