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Object-Oriented Graphics: From Gks and Phigs to Object-Oriented Systems Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Wisskirchen, Peter (Author)
ISBN: 3642842496     ISBN-13: 9783642842498
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $104.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Computer Graphics
Dewey: 006.6
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.91 lbs) 236 pages
 
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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.