EPLOT: a machine-independent graphics system

Author

Smith, Michael R. ; Turner, Laurence E. ; Suihura, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada

Volume

35

Issue

4

fYear

1992

fDate

11/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

362

Lastpage

367

Abstract

EPLOT was designed as an inexpensive and interactive small graphics library to be run on workstations, stand-alone microcomputers and mainframes, or microcomputers used as graphics terminals. It started as a minor extension to the machine-independent UNIX PLOT library but now includes capabilities for menu and mouse operations, animation, and other functions required in student projects. EPLOT allows the easy development and transfer of interactive graphics programs between SUN, MSDOS, Amiga, ATARI, and Apple Macintosh systems. It has played an important role in the philosophy of the computer graphics course offered at the authors´ institution. The scope of EPLOT is demonstrated through a series of projects and programs

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; computer science education; educational computing; subroutines; ATARI; Amiga; Apple Macintosh; EPLOT; MSDOS; SUN; animation; computer graphics course; interactive graphics library; machine-independent UNIX PLOT library; machine-independent graphics system; menu operations; mouse operations; student projects; Animation; Computer graphics; Helium; Libraries; Licenses; Mice; Microcomputers; Stress; Sun; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.168711

Filename

168711