This is a CAD tool truly worthy of the association with scheme. And I'm not just saying that: It provides minimal primitives for maximum power and flexibility. That's scheme in a nutshell.<p>It's also, not by coincedence, really, really cool.
Does Ao compute a mesh from scheme instructionz? or it is a trick? Basically can you dump the code that generates the things in a format that is efficient for a real time application?<p>Oh! And thanks for using GNU Guile Scheme :)
Nobody ever listens to me:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12033059" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12033059</a><p>I don't get it, has he given up on Guile or not:<p><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg00022.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg0002...</a><p><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg00027.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2016-06/msg0002...</a>
If you are interested in this kind of thing you might want to check out OpenSCAD [0].<p>It's a similar idea: scripting behind cad.<p>[0] - <a href="http://www.openscad.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.openscad.org/</a>
The references section in the github repository is short but very good: <a href="https://github.com/mkeeter/ao/blob/master/doc/references.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mkeeter/ao/blob/master/doc/references.md</a>
Apropos of nothing, whenever I see blue and red fonts close together, as in the first image or my recent Spacemacs configuration, my brain tries to interpret it as a 3-D image.<p>It's been years since I've seen a blue/red 3-D image, but the effect is still there. Is it just me?
Are you using a quadtree-like algorithm or filling curve? to create the mesh or you can compute edges from the math tree of operations? or it some of both? Otherwise said how does it approximate the final 3D.
This is really cool! Next time I need CAD software I know where to look. Maybe I'll actually buy a 3d printer and start playing around now that there's a good modeling software option.