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INCITS/ISO/IEC 9592-1 : 1997

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IMAGE PROCESSING - PROGRAMMER'S HIERARCHICAL INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS SYSTEM (PHIGS) - PART 1: FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-1997

1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 PHIGS functional overview
  4.1 About this part of ISO/IEC 9592
  4.2 Overview and concepts
  4.3 Structures and traversal
  4.4 Output primitives
  4.5 Output primitive attributes
  4.6 The rendering pipeline
  4.7 Workstations
  4.8 Coordinate systems and transformations
  4.9 Graphical input
  4.10 PHIGS metafile interface
  4.11 PHIGS states
  4.12 Inquiry functions
  4.13 Error handling
  4.14 Special interfaces between PHIGS and application program
  4.15 Limitations
  4.16 Minimum support criteria
5 PHIGS Functional Specification
  5.1 Notational conventions
  5.2 Control functions
  5.3 Output primitive functions
  5.4 Attribute specification functions
  5.5 Transformation and clipping functions
  5.6 Structure content functions
  5.7 Structure manipulation functions
  5.8 Structure display functions
  5.9 Structure archiving functions
  5.10 Input functions
  5.11 Metafile functions
  5.12 Inquiry functions
  5.13 Error control functions
  5.14 Special interface function
6 PHIGS data structures
  6.1 Notation and data types
  6.2 Operating state table
  6.3 PHIGS description table
  6.4 PHIGS traversal state list
  6.5 PHIGS state list
  6.6 Workstation state list
  6.7 Workstation description table
  6.8 Structure state list
  6.9 PHIGS error state list
  6.10 Alphabetic list of entries
A Function Lists
B Error list
C Interfaces
D Allowable differences in PHIGS implementations
E HLHSR considerations
F Relationship of CGM and PHIGS
G Colour models
H Suggested reflectance formulae
I Attributes applying to each primitive
J Inquiry error indicators and allowable states
K Suggested depth cueing formulae
L Bibliography
M Index of usage of datatypes
N International standardized profiles
O Configurability

Describes a set of functions for computer graphics programming, the Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Systems (PHIGS). PHIGS is a graphics system for application programs that produce computer generated pictures on output devices.

DevelopmentNote
Supersedes INCITS/ISO 9592-4. (01/2003)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
525
PublisherName
Information Technology Industry Council
Status
Current
Supersedes

Standards Relationship
ISO/IEC 9592-1:1997 Identical

ISO/IEC 8632-1:1999 Information technology Computer graphics Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information Part 1: Functional specification
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ISO/IEC 9593-3:1990 Information technology Computer graphics Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System (PHIGS) language bindings Part 3: ADA
ISO 6093:1985 Information processing Representation of numerical values in character strings for information interchange
ISO/IEC 8632-3:1999 Information technology Computer graphics Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information Part 3: Binary encoding
ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
ISO/IEC 9593-1:1990 Information processing systems Computer graphics Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System (PHIGS) language bindings Part 1: FORTRAN
ISO/IEC 8632-4:1999 Information technology Computer graphics Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information Part 4: Clear text encoding
ISO/IEC 8632-2:1992 Information technology — Computer graphics — Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information — Part 2: Character encoding
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