[Edu-sig] PyOpenGL - another comment

Arthur Siegel siegel@eico.com
Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:22:18 -0500


Dennis writes -

> I think geometry work might be very interesting at some point.  Have you
> considered introducing it along with objects for geometric representation,
> sort of how it showed up in the early Smalltalk work?  Something like
>
> p1 = mkPoint(0.0, 7.3)
> p2 = mkPoint(-3.7, 1.5)
> p3 = mkPoint(2.4, -12.7)
> s1 = mkPlain(p1, p2, p3)
> s2 = ...
> linex = mkIntersection(s1, s2)
> linex.draw(parameters)

I may have reinvented the wheel.  This looks like PyGeo to me.
I don't know what kind of graphics one got from SmallTalk.  Python, via
PyOpenGL,
has the power of OpenGL behind it, so that one can achieve real nice 3D
effects -
lighting, textures, the whole thing.

There is nothing new under the sun. The sun here probably at least got
prettier.

ART