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The semantics of graphic input devices
The papers of the ACM symposium on Graphic languages
The history of computer graphics standards development
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Recent Efforts Towards Graphics Standardization
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Graphics Programming Using the Core System
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A conceptual model of raster graphics systems
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The George Washington University Core System implementation
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Definition and use of higher-level graphics input tools
SIGGRAPH '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
TIGS: An overview of the terminal independent graphics system
SIGGRAPH '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A flexible, high performance interactive graphics system
SIGGRAPH '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Chapter 2: Functional specification for a Core graphics System
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A Portable Graphics system for minicomputers
ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference - Volume 2
State-of-the-art of graphic software packages
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics - Status report of the graphic standards planning committee of ACM/SIGGRAPH
Status report of the graphic standards planning committee
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics - Status report of the graphic standards planning committee
Ansi study group working paper: "The Background of Computer Graphics Standardization"
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
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GPGS is a subroutine package offering powerful and versatile support for passive and interactive vector graphics, for time-sharing, batch, and stand-alone minicomputer systems. The package is computer, language, and operating system, as well as display device independent. Its key purpose is to allow for transportabiliit of programs and programmers by providing easy to learn, high level features. The applications programmer writes his program once and then executes it on any supported graphics equipment without recompiling or relinking it. Device-independence was implemented by dividing GPGS into a device-independent part invoked by the applications programmer, and internal, "device drivers", one per display device. Like the GSPC "Core System" whose design it influenced, GPGS is a general purpose package. It has a subset of graphics facilities to handle output of line and character primitives with attributes such as line style and character size, and input from interaction tools such as lightpens, keyboards, valuators, and function keys. It also supports 2D and 3D viewin transformationss for clipping and window to viewport mapping, and coordinate transformations.Unlike the GSPC Core System, GPGS also includes a set of basic features for modelling objects which allows definition of device independent masters called seudo picture segment. These are distinguished from normal, device (DPU) dependent pictur segments into which primitives and their attribute-value settings are ordinarily compiled. These masters may be instanced subject to affine transformations (translate, rotate, and scale) to create a typical master-instance hierarchy. The hierarchy may be stored in a disk based library or compiled into a normal picture segment for output to a display device.The images of objects stored in device dependent picture segments may be transformed on the display surface by v port (image) transformations. These typically allow use of hardware transformation capabilities for dragging or tumbling object images.Host/satellite graphics is accommodated by having the device independent part of GPGS in the host and splitting the device drivers across host and satellite. At the source code level it therefore makes no difference on which.configuration a program will be executed.Among the existing implementations are versions written in assembler for the IB 360/370 and the PDP 11, in both stand-alone and satellite mode, and under a variety of operating systems. They support plotters, storage tubes, and high performance refresh displays. FORTRAN based implementations exist for the Univac 1108, the PDP 10, and a Harris minicomputer.