C Version of the NCAR Computer Graphics Metafile Translator
Senior Project: 1987-1988
Two separate programs are provided by NCAR for the translation of Computer
Graphics Metafiles (CGM) from file format to display on various devices. One,
written in FORTRAN, makes use of a "graphcap" facility, allowing the translator
to display the graphics on any device for which there are entries describing
the capabilities of the device in the graphcap database. The other, written in
C, instead requires that device drivers be written for each device on which the
graphics is to be displayed. This project, written in C, allowed for the use of
both the graphcap database and the device driver interface, while improving
performance by approximately a factor of two.
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