In response to the increasing use of workstations in the writing of scientific applications, Precision Visuals International Inc is releasing a graphics software package designed for VAX/VMS technical workstations. Although the new GFX-4000 is based on the Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System, the PHIGS standard for three-dimensional graphics, the Boulder, Colorado supplier of graphics software […]
In response to the increasing use of workstations in the writing of scientific applications, Precision Visuals International Inc is releasing a graphics software package designed for VAX/VMS technical workstations. Although the new GFX-4000 is based on the Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System, the PHIGS standard for three-dimensional graphics, the Boulder, Colorado supplier of graphics software claims the new product offers extensions of around 20% to the basic standard. Extras include additional two and three dimensional primitives, quick update viewing methods, and raster operations to give full access to the workstation’s bit-mapped graphics capabilities; the company estimates that 88% of scientific, technical and engineering applications are now written on workstations, and that the extra benefits of the new product will be able to exploit this trend – the GFX-4000 should eventually be able to run under DECwindows and on Sun Microsystems workstations. Precision Visuals’s UK arm became a member of DEC’s Complementary Software House programme in July this year, (CI No 979) and Digital is endorsing the GFX-4000; DEC, in fact, is making a concerted effort this year to tap what it sees as a highly lucrative scientific workstation market. Precision Visuals began UK operations back in 1983, and is best known for its flagship D1300 and PicSure graphics tools.
