[plt-scheme] 3-D graphics

From: Stephen Bloch (sbloch at adelphi.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 26 13:20:38 EDT 2009

On Mar 26, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Noel Welsh wrote:

>>  I'd like to write (or, even better, get somebody else to
>> write!) a beginner-friendly, functional front end for it that allows
>> first-semester students to build 3-D animations, with not much more
>> difficulty than the 2-D animations we do with world, sb-world, or  
>> universe.
>>  Is anybody working on this sort of thing?
>
> Not that I know of, but a basic system shouldn't be too hard. Of
> course cranking up the rendering performance and realism requires a
> lot of work and some decisions about what types of objects and
> environments you support.

Performance would be nice, of course, but a higher priority for me is  
a beginner-friendly API.


Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adelphi.edu



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