... Young.1
Object-Oriented Programming With C++ and OSF/Motif, Prentice-Hall, 1992.
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... use.2
One advanced but not implausible application, which would test the extensibility of our design, is the near real-time analysis and display of data from a telescope, in which the results of preliminary analysis are used to guide decisions about telescope pointing. As an aside, and with a tip of the hat to the Monitor and Control software development team at the Green Bank Telescope (where such an application might have some appeal): both of our projects use glish, and so assembling separately developed software in this way is neither fanciful nor naive.
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... needs.3
Actually, it is the TK widget set that is immature - TCL itself is quite well developed and robust.
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... come.4
This author has long believed that an innovative catalog manager could be written in Fresco or OpenGL and that, done right, this would be a real boon to astronomers managing complex and inter-connected data sets. See, for instance, Communications of the ACM, April 93, Volume 36, Number 4, page 57: ``Information Visualization Using 3D Interactive Animation'', by Robertson, Card and Mackinlay
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... objects5
An Image is essentially an array of numbers with coordinate information attached. It is natural, then, for the Image Display Component to also be capable of displaying an array, without coordinates, and using integer axis indices in their stead. Furthermore, since AIPS++ provides converters to and from FITS, the Image Display Component can be used to display FITS images as well, performing conversion behind the scenes.
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... client.6
The author has spent the last several weeks experimenting with and absorbing the details of the Karma graphics library. There has not yet been time to organize this exploratory work into a well thought-out public interface. It is safe to say, however, that the interface will include zooming, panning pixel-picking, region marking, annotation, colormap manipulation, and intensity transformations (linear, log, square root, histogram equalization).
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