Re: [Visualpython-users] Export geometry to obj, fbx or a common geometric 3D format OR access the data of the geometric models so that I can store it to file.

[Russell J. <rus...@ph...>]

On 11/01/17 12:40, free wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 03:09 AM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>> This email list is indeed dead, but Magnus Elden found it using Google,
>> alas. It has long been superceded by the VPython forum at
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!forum/vpython-users
>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#%21forum/vpython-users>
>>
>> VPython itself is very much alive. See vpython.org <http://vpython.org>.
> Thanks for replying, and sorry for hijacking the thread, and for
> performing necromancy on a dead email list.
>
>   From over here things seem a bit different.
>
> What I came to know and love as vpython had been rebranded "classical
> vpython" and is no longer maintained.
>
> I want a vpython free of all kinds of encumbrances and dependencies on
> corporations, webbrowsers and integrated development environments. In
> fact I want it to be as lean and mean a layer over opengl as humanly
> possible to program, while still retaining all the nice abstractions.
>
> I believe that it was long overdue for vpython to switch away from using
> compiled C code, specifically boost, and instead to start to use ctypes
> or cffi. That would mean one could much easier maintain and develop it,
> because there would be no code compile run loop and instead one would be
> accessing already compiled functions that exist in some system library.
>
> Pi3d is an example of the kind of this thing I'd want, except of course
> vpython (the classical vpython) has a much larger mindshare and cultural
> background, based on a long history of use.
>
> I suspect that maybe some of these considerations have been at the basis
> of your decisions, unfortunately resulting in a direction that doesn't
> please me too much :( but that I think I can understand.
>
Have a look at http://vispy.org/ as well.

It seems vpython-users doesn't allow mailing list-type subscriptions, 
which seems a bit odd as I thought Google Groups allowed that. Maybe 
that's only for gmail.

Russell