Phi SCUBA, A Buffered Core Graphics System

Abstract

The graphics community is recently taking a close look at graphics standardization prompted by issues such as portability of software, application program structure, diverse hardware, etc. Through these efforts, the Graphic Standards Planning Committee of ACM/SIGGRAPH has proposed a standard. This standard advocates four levels of the Core system, namely basic, buffered, interactive and complete. This paper describes a Level 2 (i.e. buffered) implementation of the Core system in APL, referred to as SCUBA (APL Buffered Core System). The details of the structure and organization of SCUBA are given. The implementation is highly modular in nature, provides both two and three dimensional capabilities with several types of projective transformations and supports full segmentation capabilities. Several examples illustrating the use of the system are included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA279734

Entities

People

  • Aragam R. Nagesh
  • Uday G. Gujar

Organizations

  • University of New Brunswick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Device Drivers
  • Directories
  • Graphics
  • Integral Equations
  • Mathematics
  • New Brunswick
  • Numbers
  • Operating Systems
  • Standardization
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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