visualpython-users

[Visualpython-users] Hello everyone ;-)

[Karim Y. <ka...@ni...>]

Hello everyone,
I am really glad that I joint this mailing group....I was thinking for some
time to use Python as the main language from my final project(for next
year), but I wanted to do something more 'visual'...and I think that VPython
is absolutely the tool to use.

Just out of curiosity, is VPython based on OpenGl? is it extensible to use
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer: http://www.libsdl.org/) or its python
extensions PyGame (http://pygame.seul.org/)?

Eh! if you've got any suggestions, drop me a word;-) Thanks.

Cheers,
Karim

Re: [Visualpython-users] Hello everyone ;-)

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Thursday, May 10, 2001 14:13 +0100 Karim Yaici <ka...@ni...> 
wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, is VPython based on OpenGl? is it extensible to use
> SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer: http://www.libsdl.org/) or its python
> extensions PyGame (http://pygame.seul.org/)?

Yes, the Visual module uses OpenGL.

My unexpert guess is that Visual isn't "extensible" to SDL, whatever that 
would mean. Visual implements a parallel thread that periodically reads the 
current values of the attributes of the graphics objects that have been 
created, and it paints a 3D scene using these current values. This makes 3D 
graphics be a side effect of computations. Architecturally, this is pretty 
different from other kinds of graphics environments.

Bruce Sherwood