Polymarker Primitives

Performance Optimized For:

Factors Affecting Performance:

• Many markers per call:

These vertex data:

o

ppolymarker3 (C), ppm3

 

o

Indirect colour

o

(FORTRAN)

 

o

RGB colour

ppolymarker (C), ppm (FORTRAN)

Pseudo colour mapping method

 

 

Text Primitives

Performance Optimized For:

 

Factors Affecting Performance:

Longer strings

 

• Polygonal text fonts

Best: simple strings:

 

 

• ptext3 (C), ptx3 (FORTRAN)

 

 

• ptext (C), ptx (FORTRAN)

 

 

Fair: annotation text:

 

 

• panno_text_rel3 (C), patr3 (FORTRAN)

 

panno_text_rel (C), patr (FORTRAN)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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