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- From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Graphics in C
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.005255.13802@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:52:55 GMT
- References: <C00uI5.5vr@ocsmd.ocs.com> <1992Dec29.205122.23878@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1992Dec31.224521.24607@netcom.com>
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- Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Organization: University of Arizona
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- In-Reply-To: whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon)
-
- In article <1992Dec31.224521.24607@netcom.com>, whedon@netcom (Bill Whedon) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.205122.23878@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
- >>In article <C00uI5.5vr@ocsmd.ocs.com>, mark@ocsmd (Mark Wilson) writes:
- >>>Does anyone have any sources for source code for displaying graphics
- >>>using C?
- >>
- >
- >Smartass college child responds with something about Bezier curves. Well, he
- >did spell it correctly...
-
- [the rest of Mr. Whedon's diatribe deleted]
-
- Mr. Whedon's vitrolic reply to my post prompted me to go re-read it.
- Frankly, I don't thing it merits such a response. No, I was not overly
- polite about it, but I did indicate that Mr. Wilson might be better
- served by asking his question elsewhere. (Given the existence of
- a large number of news groups with "graphics" in their name, along
- with a large number of groups dedicated to ibm machines and operating
- systems, I really do wonder how Mr. Wilson decided "comp.programming"
- and "comp.lang.c" were the best places to ask his question...)
-
-
- The "peeve list" I appended might have been out of hand; but surely
- orders of magnatude less so than Mr Whedon's reply. If Mr. Wilson
- or anyone else was offended by my post, I apologize; it was certainly
- not my intent to offend anyone. However, my original point still
- stands: the machine specific groups are the appropriate place to ask
- machine specific questions.
-
- As for Mr Whedon, I might suggest he try to take posts to Usenet a bit
- less personally.
-
- ObGraphicsProgramming:
- A very good text on graphics programming is _Computer Graphics:
- Principles and Practice_, bye Foley et.al. (ISBN 0-201-12110-7)
- It contains discussion of everything from line-drawing algorithms
- to the implementation of 3D rendering systems.
-
- Moreover, those interested in the specifications of GIF or other
- graphic formats should follow up the pointers in the comp.graphics
- FAQ, which gives ftp sites where such things can be found (along
- with pointers to archives for various graphics packages).
-
- --
- Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu
-