[comp.lang.tcl] Tcl interface to SIPP 3D rendering library available.

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From: Mark Diekhans
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 13:46

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The following 3D rendering interface is now available via anonymous ftp:

     barkley.Berkeley.EDU:tcl/extensions/tsipp3.0a.tar.Z

Please let me know if your have any questions, comments or problems.

markd@grizzly.com

                            === Tcl-SIPP 3.0a ===

    This package provides a Tcl command interface to the SIPP rendering
program.  SIPP, the SImple Polygon Processor, is a library for creating
3-dimensional scenes and rendering them using a scan-line z-buffer algorithm.
Tcl is an easy to use, powerful, interpretive programming language, that is
designed to be imbeddable in applications.

    Tcl-SIPP is a set of Tcl commands used to programmed SIPP without having to
write and compile C code.  Commands are used to specify surfaces, objects,
scenes and rendering options.  Scenes may be rendered to files in the PPM
format or in Utah Raster Toolkit RLE format.

   This interface greatly speeds the development of scenes because no compile
and link phase is required.  Data is represented in a simple ASCII form.
This is particularly useful when for producing 3D scenes from ASCII data
generated by other programs.  Since most of the work in creating a scene is
still done in libsipp, the is only a small performance cost in programming from
Tcl.


REQUIREMENTS
============
The following software packages are required to build and use Tcl-SIPP:

   o SIPP 3.0 - The SImple Polygon Processor
        wuarchive.wustl.edu:/graphics/graphics/packages/sipp/sipp-3.0.tar.Z
        isy.lie.se:/src/sipp-3.0.tar.Z (note: this site is in Sweden)

   o Tcl 6.4 - The Tcl command language
        sprite.bekerley.edu:/pub/tcl/tcl6.4.tar.Z

   o TclX6.4c - Extended Tcl, an add on package for Tcl.
        sprite.bekerley.edu:/pub/tcl/tclX6.4c.tar.Z
        barkley.bekerley.edu:/tcl/extensions/tclX6.4c.tar.Z

   o Utah Raster Toolkit (optional) - This tool kit is great, check it out.
        cs.utah.edu:/pub/urt/urt-3.0.tar.Z
        cs.utah.edu:/pub/urt/urt-3.0.patch1
        cs.utah.edu:/pub/urt/urt-3.0.patch2.Z

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