Object-Oriented Graphics: From Gks and Phigs to Objectoriented Systems (Symbolic Computation: Computer Graphics - Systems and Applications)

Peter Wisskirchen

ISBN 10: 3642842496 / ISBN 13: 9783642842498

Published by Springer, 2012

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reprint edition. 249 pages. 9.50x6.70x0.60 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Object-Oriented Graphics: From Gks and Phigs to Objectoriented Systems (Symbolic Computation: Computer Graphics - Systems and Applications)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642842496
• ISBN 13: 9783642842498
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

At present, object-oriented programming is emerging from the research labora­ tories and invading into the field of industrial applications. More and more products have been implemented with the aid of object-oriented programming techniques and tools, usually as extensions of traditional languages in hybrid development systems. Some of the better known examples are OSF-Motif, News, Objective-C on the NeXT computer, the C extension C++, and CLOS an object­ oriented extension of LISP. All of these developments incorporate interactive graphics. Effective object-oriented systems in combination with a graphics kernel­ does it mean that the field of computer graphics has now become merely an aspect of the object-oriented world? We do not think so. In spite of interesting individual developments, there are still no sound object-oriented graphics sys­ tems available. If it is desired to develop a complex graphics application embed­ ded in a window-oriented system then it is still necessary to work with elemen­ tary tools. What is to be displayed and interactively modified inside a window must be specified with a set of graphics primitives at a low level, or has to be written with a standardized graphics kernel system such as GKS or PHIGS, i. e. , by kernels specified and implemented in a non-object-oriented style. With the terms GKS and PHIGS we enter the world of international graphics standards. GKS and PHIGS constitute systems, not mere collections of graphics primitives.