Is this on hackage yet, or should we just consult the mecha link on your home page?
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Tom Hawkins <tomahawk...@gmail.com> wrote: > A few months ago, I started toying with a few alternative pump designs > to power our hydraulic hybrids. After not being able to secure a ProE > license, I searched for a free solid modeler to sketch out a few > ideas. To my surprise, their are practically no open source 3D CAD > packages available. So I created Mecha, DSL for constructive solid > modeling. > > Mecha's geometry is based on octrees, which makes it easy to perform > set operations on solids, as well as volumetric calculations such as > center-of-mass, moments of inertia, and of course, total volume. > Drawbacks of octrees include consuming a lot of memory and the loss of > some surface information. To address the later, Mecha carries forward > surface points and normals to the leaf nodes of the octree to assist > in rendering, such that solids don't look like they're made from a > bunch of LEGOS. > > Note this is a very early release. The only thing Mecha can do at the > moment is draw a pretty blue ball -- well it can also zoom and pan on > a pretty blue ball (mouse wheel). Establishing a primitive API and > building a primitive library must be finished before Mecha an do > anything useful. > > Any comments and suggestions are welcome. > > http://tomahawkins.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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