[Mxrtoolkit-discussion] pyMXR anyone??? :)

[rodney <ro...@at...>]

HI all,

Is anyone out there feeling brave enough to try making a python wrapper for
the MXR Toolkit?

There is a tool called SWIG http://www.swig.org/ that supposedly makes this
relatively easy.

I think it would be great to be able to offer non C programmers a way of
using mixed reality at a higher level of abstraction.

This was done 2 years ago with the ARToolkit
http://www.scripps.edu/mb/olson/pyartk/pyartk.html but it seems to only be
available for linux at the moment. It looks pretty good though...

Unfortunately I am not a programmer (yet) but I am learning python, and I
think that it would help open the door to a lot of people who are still a
bit scared by C and C++ as a first step into programming. I think that an
enthusiatsic beginner could successfully adapt example applications in
python to make their own projects more quickly and with less frustration
than in C.

I imagine this sitting somewhere between C-based toolkits and new
Designer-oriented things like DART 
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/dart/ and my own (slow-developing because first I
have to learn to program) DsignAR
http://www.mis.atr.co.jp/~rodney/designAR/index.htm In fact I hope to use a
pythonized MXRToolkit to develop the latter.

Remember the transcendent goal of every programmer is his or her own
obselescence!

Rod.

Rodney Berry
ATR Media Information Science Laboratories
Kyoto Japan
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