Thanks all, i’m just going to see if Pict3D works out. I didn’t know about it
before. I don’t really need textures for this project as i am starting with
just particles moving around and wave superposition.
Nate
> On Apr 8, 2021, at 2:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:22:10AM -0700, kamist...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Have you tried out Pict3D [1]?
>
> Two significant flaws with Pict3D:
>
> * It does not have a mechanism for attaching a texture to an object.
>
> * It does not allow one to cut one #D object out of another.
> (such as using a cylinder to drill a round hole in a block of wood)
>
> Otherwise it's an impressive peve of work.
>
>> There is also a library from Matthew Flatt that can create 3D Text /
>> extruded pathes: [2]
>>
>> Personally I currently use opengl [3], these bindings support higher opengl
>> versions than the [4]
>> (which only support opengl 1.5 according to its documentation)
>>
>> I can't say exactly up to which opengl version [3] has working bindings,
>> these bindings were automatically generated, but that stopped working at
>> some point.
>> (Apparantly the input that was used for the generation isn't provided for
>> recent opengl versions anymore, so the generator has to be fixed or
>> replaced to work with a different input/description)
>
> Exactly. I've been struggling with this last year, and I sort of gave up.
> I'm thinking of looking at it again.
>
> What happened to the spec is that the entire thing has been recoded from a
> completely ad-hoc formalism to a slightly less ad-hoc XML-based formalism.
> Everything is different. And the new one is somewhat inconsistent about
> the placement of asterisks in the XML phrases that form function prototypes.
>
> I've been using sgl for my own work. I suspect it to be largely
> hand-coded, but it seems to work.
>
> There's also a binding for Vulkan, which I don't think has been used vary
> much, and so may still pose surprises.
>
>https://docs.racket-lang.org/vulkan/index.html
>
> I don't know how well any of this works on a Mac, which I gather is going
> its own way for graphics, perhaps in the cause of incompatibility.
>
> -- hendrik
>
>>
>> [1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pict3d/index.html
>> [2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pict3d-die-cut/index.html
>> [3] https://docs.racket-lang.org/opengl/index.html
>> [4]
>> https://docs.racket-lang.org/sgl/index.html?q=opengl#%28idx._%28gentag._0._%28lib._sgl%2Fscribblings%2Fsgl..scrbl%29%29%29
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