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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada graphic tools' summary
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:28:44 -0500
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"Peter Hermann" <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in message
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> 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?

ada thin binding for SDL http://sourceforge.net/projects/adasdl/
There is a thick binding in the CVS tree, also

> o a hardware-independent set of routines to draw
>   straight lines and ellipses?
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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