TSIPP Workbench version 1.5a Released
Paul Welton
graphics and animations which uses the graphical Toolkit
TSIPP developed by Mark Diekhans. A paper was presented at
the Open Source Convention in San Diago in July 2001,
describing the tool which was released as version 1.4 at
that time.
The new release, 1.5a, contains the following improvements
made in response to feedback received:
* Multiple instances of the orthogonal views may be
created by the user within separate toplevels. A
different source file may be loaded into each one
and objects may be selected in one MultiView and
copied to another.
* The use of a "tabbed notebook" style makes efficient
use of screen area and provides support for low
resolution monitors.
* Images of arbitrary size and aspect ratio may be now
be created.
* Problems due to conflicts between using the supplied
binaries and already installed binaries have been
resolved.
* The project has been established on SourceForge.
Regrettably, support for the following will be held over
to the next release:
* Using OpenGL as the underlying graphics engine rather
than TSIPP. This yields dramatic increases in
rendering speed by utilizing hardware acceleration. I
have used the package TkOGL by Claudio Esperança to
access OpenGL from within Tcl. Experimentation has
showed that the speedup comes at the expense of
reduced realism - shadow generation and the rich
textures of TSIPP have no parallel.
* Support for Freehand objects.
Visit the project home page:
http://tsippwb.sourceforge.net
Visit the SourceForge project area:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsippwb
Download the software:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tsippwb/TSIPPwb1.5a.tar.gz
As with previous releases, the downloaded software includes
all binaries for Linux - just unpack and fire up the
executable as described in the README.
Enjoy,
Paul Welton - e-mail me at cros...@users.sourceforge.net
lvi...@yahoo.com
According to Paul Welton <cros...@users.sourceforge.net>:
:The TSIPP Workbench is a Point-and-Click editor for 3D
:graphics and animations which uses the graphical Toolkit
:TSIPP developed by Mark Diekhans.
Paul, congrats on another release of this fun tool!
Given your background, are you aware of anyone other than yourself working
with TSIPP itself? I was wondering whether the hunting that people have
to through to find a 'current' version of the library might be solved if
someone (other than me - I don't currently have the resources) might
step forward to sponser some TSIPP community work on the library.
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Paul Welton
> According to Paul Welton <cros...@users.sourceforge.net>:
> :The TSIPP Workbench is a Point-and-Click editor for 3D
> :graphics and animations which uses the graphical Toolkit
> :TSIPP developed by Mark Diekhans.
>
> Paul, congrats on another release of this fun tool!
> Given your background, are you aware of anyone other than yourself working
> with TSIPP itself?
No - if anyone is, then they havn't told me. Also, the patches that I release with
the TSIPP Workbench are essential - without them (IMHO) TSIPP is certain to crash
immediately. Therefore I do not think it can be in widespread use.
> I was wondering whether the hunting that people have
> to through to find a 'current' version of the library might be solved if
> someone (other than me - I don't currently have the resources) might
> step forward to sponser some TSIPP community work on the library.
>
I would like to do this, but I have just moved from Canada to the UK so it will be
some time before I will be able to work on this. In the meantime, please note my
earlier reply to Udi Kalifon:
I have put all sources on the SourceForge area for the TSIPP Workbench. Visit:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tsippwb/TSIPPwb/pkg_build/resource/tsipp3.3b2.tar.gz
I would recommend that you make use of the patches that I have also placed there.
Look in the top level build script for the TSIPP section:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tsippwb/TSIPPwb/pkg_build/build_packages