From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Curious about 3D Metapost
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:00:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000d8100-f6ce-4258-9be2-4d97ae4ab476@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALJ_jGQtR5BfYiWuh838CRhBOzeYYJE5woZjfDH652=wepenew@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/25/2024 2:30 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong. LMTX has Metapost built in then can we
> not write a pure lua extension of it to do real 3D probably using Vulkan?
You're kidding right? Interfacing to some huge system that dwarfs the
luametatex code base, creates a horrible dependency on what is fashion
today (and replaced in a few years by what is then the fashion in
graphics), adds plenty of runtime while in practice one can just create
these graphics externally once and then include them.
If we talk 3d in mp we mean simple 3d for visualizing data and so. For
artwork one should use programs made for that purpose (fwiw, going over
the top in tikz runtime also makes little sense).
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-25 12:30 [NTG-context] " Shiv Shankar Dayal
2024-09-25 13:00 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2024-09-25 13:16 ` [NTG-context] " Shiv Shankar Dayal
2024-09-25 13:35 ` Hans Hagen
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