GINO-F is a programmable toolkit providing over 450 routines and functions for developing professional 2D and 3D graphics applications. The library includes functionality from basic line drawing, fonts, polygons and images to full 3D OpenGL features such as facets, bezier surfaces, lighting, shading and texture-mapping. Metafile input/output includes DXF, JPEG, PNG, ICO, BMP, CGM, Postscript and WMF.
Used in conjunction with the interactive and GUI features of GINOMENU, GINO-F can produce powerful professional-looking applications.
Simple Line Drawing
Just using the basic primitives of colour, lines, arcs and rectangles and combining them with transformation control such as rotating and scaling, quickly turns a data file into a meaningful graphics representation.
3D Wireframe
The 3D programming features of GINO are extensive and include:
3D primitives (lines, arcs, polylines, bezier curves)
3D transformations and viewing
3D solid primitives (box, cone, cylinder, sphere)
3D surface primitives (spline, bezier surface, bezier sphere, bezier volume)
3D Lighting and Shading
With the use of the built-in OpenGL functionality, GINO can provide:
Facet definition and fill style
Lighting and Shading
Depth Buffering
Culling and Blending
Fog, Translucence, Shadows
Texture Mapping and Filtering
Image Handling
GINO has the following image handling facilities:
Read/Write single pixels
Draw image from BMP, JPEG, PNG
Draw sub-images
Define packing characteristics
Image transformations
Replicate image rectangle
Enquire pixel data characteristics
Interaction
Interaction can be key to getting information from the user back to the program. Full GUI features are found in the GINOMENU package but GINO-F provides the following graphics interaction facilities:
Built-in cursor types
Cursor Actions (rubber-banding)
XOR mode for user-defined cursors
Mouse and Windowing event detection
Segment picking
Keyboard key detection
Segment Handling
Picture Segments provide a means of ‘labelling’ parts of a picture as well as building components that can be manipulated separately without affecting other parts of the drawing. They can be used for creating a graphical menu system, a 3D hierarchical structure or a progressive interactive design package. Segment facilities include:
Access to OpenGL segments with software backup
Segment creation, extension, deletion, rename
Visibility, Sensitivity and Highlighting
Segment transformation
Copying, Referencing and Grouping
Archiving and Restoring
Animation
Animation sequences can be created by either using segments and moving the appropriate parts or using the viewing features to move the eyepoint and re-drawing the picture. This example uses gDefineSphericalView adjusting the centre of the sphere and direction of viewing to produce the animation.
Additional Features
Export plots to DXF, WMF, CGM, BMP, JPG, PNG and Postsript formats
Print to any Windows printer or plotter
Combine any number and any type of plot on a single page
