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GINO - The 2D and 3D graphics toolkit for
professional application development
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Overview
GINO 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
can produce powerful professional-looking applications.
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Highlights:
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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. |
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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)
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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
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Image Handling
GINO has the following image handling facilities:
- Read/Write single pixels
- Draw image from BMP, JPEG, PNG file
- Draw sub-images
- Define packing characteristics
- Image transformations
- Replicate image rectangle
- Enquire pixel data characteristics
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Interaction
Interaction can be key to getting information from the user back to the program
and as well as all the GUI features found in GINOMENU, GINO provides the
following graphics interaction facilities when GINOMENU is not being used or
for use with 3rd party RAD tools such as .NET or Delphi:
- Built-in cursor types
- Cursor Actions (rubber-banding)
- XOR mode for user-defined cursors
- Mouse and Windowing event detection
- Segment picking
- Keyboard key detection
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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
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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
- Define custom line styles and colors
- Text and Numeric output using TrueType fonts
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