> > Then I should have linked to this OpenGL stuff, which is kinda like > what I've been doing in VPython. > > http://blip.tv/file/4882916 > > But as of tonight, that talk in particular is down (not available). I > hope this is a temporary situation. >
Yep, definitely broken for others as well. We've made our comments on Disqus. Sigh: Python doing dancing polyhedrons has been so much what it's about for me. Trajectory: I came from Visual FoxPro (VFP), nowadays a sinking ship, looking for ways to write Scene Description Language to POV-Ray, the then free-on-CompuServ ray tracer (povray.org). Rendering Waterman Polyhedrons (named by me, invented by Steve Waterman) was one of my motivations back then, also explorations with "quadray coordinates"): http://dogfeathers.com/java/ccppoly.html (Java applet, not by me) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadray_coordinates I journaled my journey, which took me through Java, and Bruce Eckel's famous writings, to like Python 1.6 I think it was: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/oop.html (starting in VFP around 1998) http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/oop5.html (traversing through Java) http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/oop7.html (ending in Python) http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php (good mentor along the way) POV-Ray, VRML, LiveGraphics3D... all fill-in-the-blank type applications (for the views), drawing from computed data (the model). string.Template made sense, or nowadays just use the new formatting method. http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/numeracy0.html (POV-Ray etc.) Bridging Geometry and Geography then became the project, starting with bridging the lexical / graphical. Talk in Vilnius, Lithuania, giving some ideas. http://www.4dsolutions.net/presentations/connectingthedots.pdf (geography makes a splash towards the end -- "hexapent" refers to tiling a sphere with hexagons and pentagons). Getting our "education center" on Google Earth then became a job for property management clerk (recent): http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5382897441/ (screen shot, Google Earth) http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/4083452440/ (FP at Laughing Horse Books) http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/3292180674/in/photostream/ (FP at Cleveland High School) http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/4674039162/in/photostream/ (FP in a Quaker classroom) Background: I hail from an esoteric school of thought (not necessarily always by choice) that features both a novel approach to polyhedrons, and an alternative world map projection. Having free and open source tools has meant staying in the game, at least a little, though we're still out-manned and out-gunned by the normals, not a new situation (standard Church of Subgenius talk). Anyway, I hope the OpenGL talk at Pycon 2011 comes back eventually. Why, of all the talks, would this one go away? Or maybe more did. Kirby > Been watching some of the panel on IDEs, need to get to the one about > Python in teaching. > > Still lots to catch up on. Even if you got to go, there's a lotta > rings in the circus. Asynch is the way to go. > > Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig