Re: IGL Image Generation Language viewer

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Very neat John!

Works fine on my FabGL setup.

Back in the day (1970s)!) I used to work on magnetic tape drives (Pertec) driving large drum plotters - they generally plotteded technical drawings of various types - don't remember any other images !!!! but fun to do now anyway .....

Colin

On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 03:49:20 UTC+1 John Galt wrote:

While looking through the old Cp/M archives i came across an interesting old

image format called IGL. 

I appears this Image format was used with some Print Plotter back in the 1970s.

there are 7 examples of images. 

I rewrote the available code to work on the GEOFF Terminal or the FABGL ANSI Terminal.

it is posted on my github here:

https://github.com/johngalt01/IGLDRAW

the Geoff terminal is lower res then the FABGL ANSI Terminal so your output will be smaller. but you can play around with the scaling.

its neat because it was drawn on a tablet and had to be copied as line segments.

its a very early type of SVG. Scalable Vector Graphics.

i took some fast screen shot examples so you have an idea of what the images look like.