[Haskell-cafe] Announce: FieldTrip library (functional 3D) and mailing list

FieldTrip [1] is a library for functional 3D graphics. It is intended for building static, animated, and interactive 3D geometry, efficient enough for real-time synthesis and display. Since FieldTrip is functional, one describes what models are, not how to render them (being rather than doing). Surfaces are described as functions from 2D space to 3D space. As such, they are intrinsically curved rather than faceted. Surface rendering tessellates adaptively, caching tessellations in an efficient, infinite data structure (from the MemoTrie library) for reuse. Surface normals are computed automatically and exactly, using the derivative tools in the vector-space library. For animation or interaction, FieldTrip can be used with the Reactive [2] library for functional reactive programming (and possibly other animation frameworks). By design, FieldTrip is completely orthogonal to any formulation or implementation of FRP. The reactive-fieldtrip [3] library links Reactive and FieldTrip. FieldTrip now has a mailing list [4] and a feature/bug tracker [5]. [1] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/FieldTrip [2] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/reactive [3] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/reactive-fieldtrip [4] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/FieldTrip [5] http://trac.haskell.org/FieldTrip -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20081109/eadc6291/attachment.htm