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Today's Topics:

 Request for info: GKS features
      contour mapping software
    Graphics/User Interface Packages.

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Date:    Mon, 1 Dec 86 16:22:09 PST
From:    KENNELLY%TOM@ames-io.ARPA
Subject: Request for info: GKS features

I am posting these inquiries for a friend who doesn't have direct
access to the net.  Please send responses directly to either
	woo@nyu-acf4
	kennelly@ames-aero.

	Thanks in advance.  -- Alex Woo

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While hardly DETERMINED to use GKS, I'm intrigued by the prospect of
a graphics package which is

	(1)  Really a standard 
		(i.e. not DISSPLA, and not DI-3000 either)
	(2)  Widely available (???)
	(3)  Cheap, thus feeding (2)  (not DISSPLA or DI-3000, again)
	(4)  Useful - both GKS and DI-3000/CORE appear to be Spartan
	     in availbility of middle-level utilities, while 
	     DISSPLA is baroque.
	(5)  Not a religious issue (no candidates, apparently)

In particular, I'd really like to have a portable QPLOT, PLOTCL, 
maybe even PLOT3D, etc. [graphics applications written a NASA-Ames]
and it seemed to me that maybe GKS would do the job for the 2-D
stuff for now, with hope for 3-D in the future.  

What I'm unsure of is points (2) and (4) - especially  the missing 
utilities.  I had the idea that Sterling Software (NASA contract) 
or someone else  might develop such a set tailored to GKS and
perhaps using ideas from commercial packages or NCAR. Thus we could 
send applications to other users along with a MODEST sized library, 
which would work with their GKS on their equipment.  

Comments?  I don't know if this makes sense (no familiarity with GKS).  
Does anyone on the net have experience with both standards and wish
to comment?  What are the pros and cons with GKS, CORE, PHIGS, etc?
How available are these "standards?"  What mid-level utilities would
be really useful for scientific graphics?


                           Thanks, Rob.
			   kennelly@ames-aero
			   woo@nyu-acf4
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  18:52:02 CST
Date:         Thu, 04 Dec 86 16:00:52 PLT
From: Don Howes  <HOWESDW%WSUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      contour mapping software


I am looking for mapping software to produce contour maps, which can run
on either an IBM PC or an Atari 520 ST. It doesn't have to be fancy, and
can be either a commercial product or PD (preferable).

If the software runs on an IBM, I can compile C, Turbo Pascal or GW-BASIC.
On the ST, I can compile C, Modula-2 or BASIC code.

I really don't want to have to go back to first principles and develop the
package from scratch. I hope that someone out there can point me in the
right direction.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Don Howes (HOWESDW@WSUVM1.BITNET)

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Date:       Thu, 04 Dec 86 14:37:12 EST
From: "Srinivasan Krishnamurthy" <1438%NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject:    Graphics/User Interface Packages.


info-graphics@ads.arpa

I am looking for information on graphics/user interface packages
(for any PC/WKS, preferably IBMPC AT/XENIX or DOS) that provides
flexible and powerful USER INPUT capabilities. Our main focus is
on the following:

*Ability to create Panels, where elements of the panel
 can be referenced as objects.
*User definable menus, screens, and buttons.
*Windows and multiple cuncurrent windows.
*Tools to create figures (lines, squares, circles etc.)
 and invoke them as objects .
*color.

Kindly message me at the following address:
          srini%NJIT-EIES.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA

Thanks in advance.
srini
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Srinivasan Krishnamurthy
Comsat Labs (NTD RM7142)
22300 Comsat drive
Clarksburg, MD-20871
(301)-428-4531


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