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Re: idl obj gaphics and opengl - how similar? [message #32904 is a reply to message #32902]

Fri, 15 November 2002 07:48

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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"R.G. Stockwell" wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I was just wondering...
> how similar are the IDL object graphics functions,
> and the OpenGL library?
>
> i.e. if one knows how to do objects gaphics in IDL,
> will they be (reasonably easily) be able to do similar
> things in c and opengl?

C itself doesn't have any graphics capabilities. There are several
different graphics systems that have C interfaces, (and OpenGL is one of
them), but you need to specify the library, not the C language, as the
point of reference.

That said, I bow out: I know very little about using those libraries. I
can say that IDL typically operates at a higher level than those
libraries, with the typical ease-of-use vs. performance trade-offs that
apply when you change levels that way.

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		Re: idl obj gaphics and opengl - how similar? By: Karl Schultz on Fri, 15 November 2002 15:31
		Re: idl obj gaphics and opengl - how similar? By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 15 November 2002 10:11
		Re: idl obj gaphics and opengl - how similar? By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 15 November 2002 08:41
		Re: idl obj gaphics and opengl - how similar? By: James Kuyper on Fri, 15 November 2002 07:48
		Re: idl obj gaphics and opengl - how similar? By: David Fanning on Thu, 14 November 2002 15:32

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