From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-11 11:22:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Raster graphics [was Anybody in US using ADA ? New language competition? (long)] References: <3E148004.5000408@cogeco.ca> <3E15CF31.1020900@cogeco.ca> <3E19C980.6060902@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Inktomi-Trace: pc2-bbrg1-4-cust136.renf.cable.ntl.com 1042312951 13111 80.4.70.136 (11 Jan 2003 19:22:31 GMT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:23:32 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.1.224.5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net 1042312953 80.1.224.5 (Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:22:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:22:33 GMT Organization: ntl News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32921 Date: 2003-01-11T19:23:32+00:00 List-Id: Chad R. Meiners wrote: > Try looking at AdaSDL. Both the thin and thick binding available will allow > you to write directly to the screen. It supports at least RGB and RGBA. > Plus it plays well will window managers. I will, but what I had in mind didn't involve the screen. It would have functions to take input from or output to the screen (it would be just another source), but is really concerned with taking the data, processing it, and outputing the result. For example it would be possible to get channels, do halftoning, blending, convolutions, etc. > Well both Vargas and I have a masters thesis to be working on so that is why > the AdaSDL project is somewhat stalled. ;) Anyway you should collaborate > with us on AdaSDL. We have a lot of ground work laid already. Get a > sourceforge account and get in touch with Vargas. Might contribute on and off if I have time, but I've got my own huge Ada project to be working on, Niamh - an open source development tool set. Ada 2D actually grew from that; when I found there was no 2d graphics engine, I started to play around with a small engine and eventually got drawn to wanting to play with graphics processing again as I did on the uni CS graphics & multimed course with Java. Chris -- for personal replies change spamoff to chris