[Edu-sig] Pytoon?

[Terry Hancock]

On Wednesday 23 April 2003 07:43 am, Arthur wrote:
> A recent powerpoint which looks to be  proposing a 
web-based  (via XML)
> 
http://www.mas.ecp.fr/labo/equipe/devuyst/anim/AnimationII.ppt
also in PDF:
http://www.mas.ecp.fr/labo/equipe/devuyst/anim/AnimationII.pdf

Someday, people will start practicing what they preach and 
use open-source
formats to present open-source topics.  ;-)

> architecture for an animation tool in Python to be used 
in an educational
> setting, mentioning, along the way, jython, VPython, 
Numeric, wxPython, Zope
> and Plone, Boa, PyGame.

Yes, pages 1-12 at least are basically an overview of stuff 
you already
know about: PyGame, VPython, PyOpenGL, and other libraries. 
It also
mentions the ease of doing web integration and other tasks 
in Python
("Python can do anything" it says).

> Can anyone help with a better overview and the specifics 
of the proposal and
> its setting?

Mind you my French is rusty, but basically it proposes 
building
an integrated animation tool in Python.  He's using Boa 
Constructor
as a GUI design guide I think ("project to follow"), and web
capability would be built into the system.  He seems to be
suggesting a server-side-mostly solution (though I 
personally think
such a beast needs to be client-side-mostly).  I could be
wrong on this point, because the diagram isn't rendering
correctly in gv and kpresenter can't open the PPT on my
machine (memory issues? this is a pretty old system).  You
should look at the diagram on page 17 -- I don't think the
labels are particularly cryptic.

There's also a sample of a proposed XML modelling format,
which is not really transparent to me, but is easy enough to
imagine.

Like most presentations, it doesn't really get into the 
meat of
the matter -- it's just an idea at this point.

Cheers,
Terry

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