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COMMERCIALIZATION OF NIST-DEVELOPED FORTRAN GRAPHICS STANDARD.


f90gl, the FORTRAN FORTRAN - Formula Translation/Translator (high-level programming language) interface for OpenGL (OPEN Graphics Language) A 3D graphics language developed by SGI, which has become a de facto standard supported in Unix, Windows and Macintosh computers. OpenGL can be implemented as an extension to an operating system or to a windowing system such as X Window. All high-end 3D display adapters include OpenGL drivers. OpenGL and Direct3D (Microsoft's DirectX) are the major 3D graphics languages in use today. See OPC and Cg. See also OpenAL. graphics, is now emerging in commercial products. Private companies are including precompiled f90gl libraries with their LF95 FORTRAN compilers, and have included f90gl in their graphics product. Several other compiler vendors feature f9Ogl prominently on their web pages and plan to include f90gl in future releases of their FORTRAN compilers.

OpenGL is a standard three-dimensional graphics library available on most current computer systems. Developed by NIST, f90gl is a public-domain implementation of the FORTRAN 90 Fortran 90 - (Previously "Fortran 8x" and "Fortran Extended") An extensive enlargement of Fortran 77. Fortran 90 has derived types, assumed shape arrays, array sections, functions returning arrays, case statement, module subprograms and internal subprograms, optional and keyword subprogram arguments, recursion, and dynamic allocation. It is defined in ISO 1539:1991, soon to be adopted by ANSI.

["Fortran 90 Explained", M. Metcalf et al, Oxford University Press 1990].
 bindings for OpenGL, which also were developed by NIST and adopted by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board. f90gl runs on most Unix and Windows computers.

Although the source code for f90gl has been placed in the public domain, many compiler vendors have found that their customers prefer the convenience of precompiled libraries.
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Publication:Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2000
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