PHIGURE is a high-level library enabling the construction, visualization and animation of simple or very complex 2-D/3-D graphic objects. Due to its functions for creating graphic objects including axes, 2-D/3-D isosurfaces on Cartesian, polar or spherical coordinate planes, it simplifies the job of the engineer designing pre- or post-processors for scientific applications. Statisticians can use it to represent data quickly and easily in the form of curves, histograms, pie charts, etc.
The PHIGURE library is based on the PHIGS ISO standard. All graphic objects generated by PHIGURE are made up of primitives defined by this standard. PHIGURE may therefore be considered a PHIGS superset, taking full advantage of all the capabilities provided by the standard. PHIGURE was developed using the GPHIGS library produced by G5G. This concept enables maximum portability of any application developed with PHIGURE, as well as optimum use of the graphic capacities of the terminal, the workstation or the printer used.