Looking for small, impressive 3D-related Python script

[Jack Diederich]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:44:56PM -0600, Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> I'm not trying to persuade my company to offer Python as a scripting  
> language for their product, but I am trying to give them examples of  
> things that Python can do easily that cannot be done easily with  
> their current proprietary scripting language. After that it would be  
> their decision. As the product is a 3D package, I'm looking for  
> something in this field.
> 
> This does _not_ have to use PyOpenGL, or for that matter, any Python  
> 3D package. In fact, my ideal would be a Python script that simply  
> uses L-Systems (Lindenmayer systems) as in "The Algorithmic Beauty of  
> Plants", to generate plantlike OBJ files that can then be displayed  
> in our program. In general, something that generates an OBJ file  
> would probably be preferable to something that actually uses  
> PyOpenGL, Blender, etc, as then I can just display the OBJ file in  
> our program to say, "This is the sort of thing that can be easily  
> done by Python without recourse to any other programs".

A quick google on "obj 3d python" brings up cgkit which has a tutorial page:

http://cgkit.sourceforge.net/tutorials/

It state it can export in OBJ format.

-jackdied