[Edu-sig] PyOpenGL - another comment

Kirby Urner pdx4d@teleport.com
Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:25:16 -0800


At 11:22 AM 03/02/2000 -0500, Arthur Siegel wrote:
>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.

That's encouraging.  So you have object.draw() syntax in PyGeo?  
From the earlier example and your comments about it, it looked 
like you were using assignment statements to cause draw events 
behind the scenes -- confusing.

Thanks for the OpenGL link.  I will follow it.

Kirby