Hackage link: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/mecha/
2009/10/22 John Van Enk <vane...@gmail.com>: > Is this on hackage yet, or should we just consult the mecha link on your > home page? > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Tom Hawkins <tomahawk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> A few months ago, I started toying with a few alternative pump designs >> to power our hydraulic hybrids. After not being able to secure a ProE >> license, I searched for a free solid modeler to sketch out a few >> ideas. To my surprise, their are practically no open source 3D CAD >> packages available. So I created Mecha, DSL for constructive solid >> modeling. >> >> Mecha's geometry is based on octrees, which makes it easy to perform >> set operations on solids, as well as volumetric calculations such as >> center-of-mass, moments of inertia, and of course, total volume. >> Drawbacks of octrees include consuming a lot of memory and the loss of >> some surface information. To address the later, Mecha carries forward >> surface points and normals to the leaf nodes of the octree to assist >> in rendering, such that solids don't look like they're made from a >> bunch of LEGOS. >> >> Note this is a very early release. The only thing Mecha can do at the >> moment is draw a pretty blue ball -- well it can also zoom and pan on >> a pretty blue ball (mouse wheel). Establishing a primitive API and >> building a primitive library must be finished before Mecha an do >> anything useful. >> >> Any comments and suggestions are welcome. >> >> http://tomahawkins.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe