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--- SESSION REPORT ~SHARE~ "= __ ~l. __ _ _ a2.6.1!_________ __lll3QQQ _ll_eJl;r_~;ri=-e.---- _____ __ _ ~--- SHARE NO. SESSION NO. seSSION TITLE ATTENDANCE Graphics E!'l.ucat;ion ___________ Gail Garrison GFC (The information in this section is drawn heavily from the Introduction to PROJECT SESSION CHAIRMAN INST.CODE the DI-3000 User's Guide and the DI-3000 Short Course -- Instructor's Manual.) ___-.!!hite Plains, New York (General Foods ~-.2.~126L ___ Precision Visuals set out to create a flexible and durable graphics system SESSION CHAIRMAN'S COMPANY, ADDRESS. and PHONE NUMBER when they designed DI3000. They wanted to make it device independent, portab Ie, and make it adhere to existing and future standards for graphics Abstract: software. Part I: What is DI 3000 and Pretty Pictures? Different graphics devices have different special capabilities. Plotters DI3000 is a system of device-independent FORTRAN-callable graphics tools. produce permanent copies of your graphics output. One kind of screen may be Its capabilities range from presentation graphics to Mandelbrot sets. able to draw circles, another may be able to fill a polygon with one of a menu of patterns, and yet another may allow you to use 4096 different colors at Part II. A DI3000 under ~ User Experience or How I Learned VS/FORTRAN, once. Rather than write a separate graphics system for each device, Precision Assembler, and PER Visuals chose to write one device independent sysstem that attempts to simulate the features of all devices on every dev