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A User-Interface Toolkit in Object-Oriented PostScript Owen M. Densmore

Densmore, Owen M.; Rosenthal, David S. H. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

Only the diehards want to develop applications using basic window system facilities. The preferred approach is a higher-level"toolkit" of user interface components, such as menus and scroll bars. Experience with current ...

Executive Committee Nominations -1987

Duce, D A (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

EDITORIAL

Arnold, David (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

Inaugural Meeting of the EUROGRAPMCS Spanish Chapter

Duce, D A (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

Institutional Membership Column

Encarnacao, J. L. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

Executive Committee Elections

Duce, D A (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

RasterCalc: Calculus for Operations on Graphics Colour Rasters

van den Bos, Jan (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

An extended model and calculus, called RasterCalc, is presented for operations on discrete graphics rasters, including their colour functions. The operations are separated into two main categories: operations on domains, ...

New Methods for Improving the GKS Fill Area Output Primitive

Herman, Ivan; Reviczky, Janos (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

The fill area primitive is one of the most powerful primitives of GKS and its derivatives (GKS-3D, PHIGS etc.). Since its specrfication is extremely general, it is important to explore new approaches to achieve higher ...

Systolic Architecture for Boolean Operations on Polygons and Polyhedra

Krishnan, D.; Patnaik, L.M. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

In Computer-Aided Design applications there is often a need to compute the union, intersection and Merence of two polygons or polyhedra. The sequential algorithms for this problem are characterized by poor speed of response ...

ADA? and NIL: Two Concurrent Languages for GKS

Milanese, V. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

The Graphical Kernel System (GKS) has become an international standard in graphics programming and attempts are now being made to integrate it with multiprocessing, possibly in distributed systems. It is therefore necessary ...

Computer Graphics and CAD Literature A Keyword-Indexed Bibliography

Owen, Jon (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

Some Aspects of Binding GKS to C++

Richards, J.E. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1987)

Aspects of a prototype binding of GKS to the C++ programming language are presented. The binding makes use of classes and derived classes to define GKS concepts such as segments and workstations. Operator overloading is ...