Hoops announcement

[Garry Wiegand]

{2nd try at posting. Please excuse if you've seen this already.}

** Graphics Product Announcement **

In keeping with network etiquette, I will try to make this as brief
and to-the-point as possible. Apologies in advance to anyone who may
be offended (but I hope no one is!)

What we have is a beast called "Hoops". Hoops is a large, 2-D/3-D,
general-purpose display-list graphics subroutine library. Hoops
deals with such things as lines, polygons, text, windows, colors, and
cameras. It is designed to run on on many machines and many displays,
and its basic purpose is to make your life easier when you sit down
to write a graphics application. We've put a lot of effort into: 1) a
clean design, 2) speedy program execution, and 3) keeping it cheap!

Software completed:

C language binding
Fortran language binding

Support for X-Windows (tested on Ultrix microVax/GPX's)
Support for the microVax/GPX running VMS
Support for the Parallax 1280 on microVax's running VMS
Support for Postscript laser printers, including the Apple

In progress:

Pascal language binding

Support for the Silicon Graphics Iris workstation
Support for the Sun 3 workstation
Support for the IBM 5080 on IBM mainframes
Support for the Number Nine "Pro1280" on IBM PC/AT's
Support for the Pixelworks "ClipperBoard" on IBM PC/AT's

Commercial licenses are moderately priced, with large discounts for
volume purchases. University licenses are generally priced at 25% of
commercial licenses; university license fees may, under some
conditions, be waived entirely. Source code is available; demo copies
are available.

For further information, call:

Gary Wayne
Flying Moose Systems & Graphics
(607) 273-3690 // The Clinton House // Ithaca, New York 14850

Or send your post-office address to me. Thanks for listening -

Garry Wiegand (c/o ga...@oak.cadif.cornell.edu)