From: Michael Paus <pausnospam@nospamib-paus.com>
Subject: Re: Ada graphic tools' summary
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:48:23 +0100
Date: 2003-11-13T15:48:23+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bp05jo$bts$1@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bovuou$r75$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
Peter Hermann wrote:
> Work is in progress (-:
> Thanks to tmoran@acm.org who wrote a useful categorization:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> I always have to wonder what people mean when they ask about
> "doing graphics". Do they mean
>
> o a graphic UI in the sense of Windows or Macintosh,
> in which case a "graphic library" is a binding to
> the Windows or Mac OS?
>
> o Pixar type photo-realistic rendering of complex scenes?
>
> o real-time dynamic displays as for a video game or
> visualization of a physical process?
>
> o a hardware-independent set of routines to draw
> straight lines and ellipses?
A further category would be image processing as is done by tools
like, e.g. photoshop or gimp.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> For these, I am expecting further input from all of you
> in order to amend
> http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/resources_on_ada.html
>
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2003-11-12 15:17 Ada graphic tools' summary Peter Hermann
2003-11-12 17:37 ` tmoran
2003-11-13 12:51 ` Peter Hermann
2003-11-13 14:48 ` Michael Paus [this message]
2003-11-13 19:28 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-11-13 23:57 ` James E. Hopper
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