| 5.2 looks nice [message #13612] |
Tue, 24 November 1998 00:00  |
Struan Gray
Messages: 178
Registered: December 1995
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Either I've missed an announcement or I've stumbled on 5.2 before
I was supposed to. Either way, the non-beta version is on RSI's FTP
site (ftp.rsinc.com) and includes a lot of stuff not mentioned in the
press releases I have seen thus far, especially on the object graphics
side. High points include a more object-like model rotator which
nicely encapsulates a trackball; the ability to share one object
between several models so you can have two views of the same thing;
and all sorts of goodies on the file-format front such as compressed
TIFF support.
Recommended - I even suprised myself by going to the trouble of
pfaffing about in 7-min mode to try out a new object graphics feature.
Struan
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| Re: 5.2 looks nice [message #13703 is a reply to message #13612] |
Fri, 04 December 1998 00:00  |
Axel Schweiger
Messages: 11
Registered: November 1995
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And it DOESN't run on SOLARIS 2.5.X. Got to upgrade, Argh!!
David Fanning wrote:
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> Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se) writes:
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>> Either I've missed an announcement or I've stumbled on 5.2 before
>> I was supposed to.
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> I just received my copy in the mail yesterday. One new feature
> that I wasn't aware of previously is the QUERY_* routines
> to query TIFF, JPEG, PNG, etc files about their size,
> data types, etc. etc. without having to actually read
> the data. Very nice.
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> And there is even a GET_DECOMPOSED keyword for the
> DEVICE command that can tell you whether you are using
> decomposed color or not. Heaven... :-)
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> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
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