Re: [racket-users] Canvas animation performance

2021-01-12 Thread making-a-racket
Hi Doug, Thanks for the response! I had indeed read about and tried you package, even before I made my post. However, installing the animated-canvas package with the package manager yields a bunch of warnings and errors. The lines example in your documentation works, but the animated plot is

Re: [racket-users] Canvas animation performance

2021-01-11 Thread Doug Williams
While you may not be able to get high frame rates, there are some very nice animations that are easy to produce, particularly in conjunction with the plot package. Here is a short sample that animates a 3D plot. #lang racket/gui ;;; 3D animated plot example. (require plot (planet

Re: [racket-users] Canvas animation performance

2021-01-11 Thread Doug Williams
I use Racket regularly for animations and wrote an animated-canvas package that does double buffering to smooth the animations for complex animations. I think you are running into some fundamental issues with frame rates possible with the drawing package in Racket. I have attached a version of