Polymarker Primitives
Performance Optimized For: Factors Affecting Performance:
• Many markers per call:
o ppolymarker3 (C), ppm3
(FORTRAN)
o ppolymarker (C), ppm (FORTRAN)
• These vertex data:
o Indirect colour
o RGB colour
• Pseudo colour mapping method
Text Primitives
Performance Optimized For: Factors Affecting Performance:
• Longer strings
• 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)
• Polygonal text fonts
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