[ePiX-users] New unstable release (Version 2.0pre)

[Andrew D. Hwang]

There's a preliminary 2.0 package at the old URL:

  http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/epix/epix2/epix-2.0pre.tar.bz2

I'll update the 2.0 project page fairly soon.


NOTES

The library can be built with "./configure && make" from the top level, as 
usual. Do NOT try to "make install".

There are plenty of bugs and missing features, but the user syntax and 
implementation strategy are close to finalized. It's possible to draw 
scenes containing a few basic object types with automatic hidden object 
removal and lighting effects.

The package contains several sample files (not all working, yet) and a 
"compile" script to convert them to eps. (cd to the "samples" directory 
and issue "./compile knot.cc", etc.) There's no documentation, and the 
user syntax differs considerably from Version 1.2, so I hope the sample 
files are self-explanatory enough to experiment with for now.

Output gets written directly to a file, not streamed to stdout. I'm not 
sure how much I like this, since the output file name must be hard-coded 
in the input file. Your input (er, no pun) is welcome.

Happy New Year!

--
Andy

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