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From: kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Will PEX become popular? (In English)
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Date: 6 Mar 90 02:34:56 GMT
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In article <1460@wm120_no0.rinfo.sumiden.co.jp> sato@wm120_no0.rinfo.sumiden.co.jp ( Kenya SATO @ SEI ) writes:
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>Does anybody doubt that PEX will be popular after being released at
>the beginning of 1991?
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I think that PEX will be popular for a few years but not for too long mainly
for the following two reasons:

1.	Programming in PHIGS is a pain.  Programming in X is also a pain.
	It's pretty logical to derive that programming in PEX will
	be a pain squared!

2.	Simulations are becoming more and more popular.  Those need
	physical interactions between geometric objects.  The tree structure
	of PHIGS does not easily allow picturing of those interactions.
	Therefore some more object-oriented approaches to rendering should
	be developed to "replace" PHIGS.



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