Re: Mac / Perl / 3D
Thanks for the various answers. I have done the Perl - POV-RAY source before, as well as Perl - 3DML text format before. I guess I could also use any scriptable drawing package (see http://www.peter.com.au/programming/scripted-drawing.html ;-) and do my own 3D conversion as necessary. None of this seems entirely satisfactory though... Thanks for the ideas. Peter. -- Check out Interarchy 8.1.1, just released, now with Amazon S3 support. http://www.stairways.com/ http://download.stairways.com/
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Intrah onat Diria .. Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:53:03 +0800 , Peter N Lewis wrote Revera y: Peter. Thanks for the ideas. None of this seems entirely satisfactory though... do my own 3D conversion as necessary. http://www.peter.com.au/programming/scripted-drawing.html ;-) and I guess I could also use any scriptable drawing package (see 3DML text format before. I have done the Perl - POV-RAY source before, as well as Perl - Thanks for the various answers. let me drop like a stone from the sky , at the risk of damage but try blender , it has python in its belly dfn jmcs3 the following could be unreadable @ 1154185235 ::: , , t8Auschend , | , 1143901862 , 519535985582646204551472702889166404901591288793867796015745621 , }, , worldly , after , and , -product , - , |-| ,
Re: Mac / Perl / 3D
At 9:59 am +0800 26/7/06, Peter N Lewis wrote: I'm interested in producing some drawings/diagrams/pictures based on 3D data/objects generated from Perl. Something that would allow me to write code that generates boxes, cylinders, spheres, etc with various colours and material styles and generate an image (or potentially an animation). Any suggestions? The best bet seems to be to use SDL_Perl, although a brief look seems to indicate I'll be installing packages for the next month. After several attempts over the past 2 years to install all that's necessary to do this sort of thing with PerlDL (I can't remember if I looked at SDL_Perl) I ended up doing these things with Smile/SmileLab http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/presentation.html, some of the data being generated with Perl. Smile creates vector PDF files and these can be converted to DXF using a programme called Cenon http://www.cenon.info/frame_gb.html for import to other programmes or for numerically controlled machinery. Ghostscript and hpijs http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/, both simply installed, are all that is needed besides. Smile can also create movies from the drawings. I have not done any 3D work but a licence for Smile allows this also. Write me off-list if you'd like some examples. JD
Re: Mac / Perl / 3D
On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Peter N Lewis wrote: I'm interested in producing some drawings/diagrams/pictures based on 3D data/objects generated from Perl. Something that would allow me to write code that generates boxes, cylinders, spheres, etc with various colours and material styles and generate an image (or potentially an animation). Any suggestions? The best bet seems to be to use SDL_Perl, although a brief look seems to indicate I'll be installing packages for the next month. Thanks for any hints or warnings, POV-Ray uses text-based source files that are fairly easy to create with Perl: http://povray.org sherm-- Web Hosting by West Virginians, for West Virginians: http://wv-www.net Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net
Mac / Perl / 3D
I'm interested in producing some drawings/diagrams/pictures based on 3D data/objects generated from Perl. Something that would allow me to write code that generates boxes, cylinders, spheres, etc with various colours and material styles and generate an image (or potentially an animation). Any suggestions? The best bet seems to be to use SDL_Perl, although a brief look seems to indicate I'll be installing packages for the next month. Thanks for any hints or warnings, Peter. -- Check out Interarchy 8.1.1, just released, now with Amazon S3 support. http://www.stairways.com/ http://download.stairways.com/
Re: Mac / Perl / 3D
At 09:59 +0800 7/26/06, Peter N Lewis wrote: I'm interested in producing some drawings/diagrams/pictures based on 3D data/objects generated from Perl. Something that would allow me to write code that generates boxes, cylinders, spheres, etc with various colours and material styles and generate an image (or potentially an animation). I have used perl on a Mac, starting with MacPerl, to generate Autodesk DXF formatted stuff. Not much in 3D but a couple of specialized projects that 2D folks were happy with. If you start with an exported DXF file from the version of AutoCAD that's being used you can copy the boilerplate from front and back. I usually use Vectorworks to view my own work and it doesn't care much about the boilerplate. There is other software that reads and displays the format. The current specification for DXF is freely available at the AutoCAD web site in html format. Ask if you'd like some samples. -- -- Life begins at ovulation. Ladies should endeavor to get every young life fertilized. --
