3D Vector Type Line-Drawing Program

[Mike C. Fletcher]

James Stroud wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>   
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm looking for a program to do line-drawings in 3d, with output to 
>> postscript or svg or pdf, etc. I would like to describe a scene with 
>> certain 1-3d elements oriented in 3d space with dashed or colored lines 
>> and filled or transparent surfaces (or maybe semitransparent).
>>
>> I would then like to set the camera and have the scene depicted as a 
>> line drawing (not ray-traced solid body, etc).
>>
>> Does anyone know of a library to do this?
>>     
>
>
> I'm really looking for a python library. The title of the post is kind 
> of misleading.
>   
At one point I created a gl2ps wrapper for use with PyOpenGL, that, 
combined with any of the PyOpenGL-based renderers would allow much of 
what you're describing, though IIRC it didn't properly support 
transparent or textured surfaces.  You could probably recreate the 
wrapper using ctypes in a few hours and then hook it up in a few more.

I believe there are similar OpenGL-to-SVG libraries here and there, you 
could likely hook one of them up to get a reasonable result that would 
support more graphics features (maybe).  Generally what you get out of 
these things, however, is a quite fragmented view of your objects (that 
is, you get the triangles that would be rendered).  That *can* be coded 
around, but generally people are either focused on making it look good 
or making it editable.

Good luck,
Mike

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