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: 103376,8f89ebb1fa1ebe5d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-13 06:48:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!netnews.web.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Paus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada graphic tools' summary Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:48:23 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p508a9538.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: online.de 1068734904 12220 80.138.149.56 (13 Nov 2003 14:48:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:48:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2449 Date: 2003-11-13T15:48:23+01:00 List-Id: 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 >