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jarl@hsr.no (Jarl Haugland) writes:

>I have a couple of questions concerning what to expect from PEX and PHIGS
>in the future (whitch in this case is within a year or two). I know that some
>info is available in the PEX 6.0 specification papers, but I would appreciate
>getting some more, bouth facts and rumours.

>Interesting questions are:
>  * When (if ever) will the official PHIGS version have support for
>    immediate mode?

If/when the ISO group which deines PHIGS decides to add it.

>  * Will PEX/PHIGS support additional advanced graphical techniques like:
>    - double buffering
>    - texture mapping
>    - antialiasing
>    - etc....
>    My understanding is that OpenGL will support many of these when it's
>    available, so PEX/PHIGS will have to speed up to be into the race...

PEX already has hooks to support double buffering in the workstation
and there is a Mutli buffer extension to X which can be used to do it
from the client side.

PEX 6.0 plans to support texture mapping, and I believe anti-aliasing, but
I'd have to double check discussion notes.


>Finally, a different question. Is PEXIM publicly available (ftp'able)?
>And if it is, then where?

I believe it's available from export.lcs.mit.edu

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