★ IDL 8.0: a new graphics interface
posted Thu 12 Aug 2010 by Michael Galloy under IDL, iTools, Object graphicsIDL 8.0 introduces an entirely new graphics interface. Currently, there is no name for this system except Graphics (am I supposed to say it capitalized when talking?), so I will refer to them as function graphics because all the routines are functions instead of procedures as in most direct graphics and iTools graphics routines. This new system is easy to use, interactive, programmatically accessible, and fairly complete even in this first release.
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