3d graphics and functional programming

[jmilton]

Are there any resources for learning 3d graphics with an impure
functional programming language such as Ocaml, F#, Erlang (i.e. FRP) ?

[Jon Harrop]

My books OCaml for Scientists and Visual F# 2010 for Technical Computing both had some content about 3D graphics but only part of a chapter.

I wrote an article about using GLSL shaders in OpenGL 2 from OCaml here:

  http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/high-fidelity-graphics-with-opengl-2.html

and a fun festive article about OCaml+OpenGL here:

  http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/festive-fun-wth-opengl-and-gtk.html

I also wrote an F#+XNA article here:

  http://fsharpnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/beginners-xna-tutorial.html

and here:

  http://fsharpnews.blogspot.com/2008/03/embedding-xna-in-windows-forms.html

and, of course, our visualization library for F# makes 3D graphics even easier:

  http://fsharpnews.blogspot.com/2008/06/f-for-visualization-0313.html

However, I doubt any of these class as FRP. In fact, I wonder if FRP should be on the list yet for someone learning 3D graphics...

Cheers,

Jon.

[Art Scott]

Monday, 28 January 2013

Using F# and WPF to create the World

The F#.NET Journal just published an article by Don Ryan about 3D graphics and visualization:

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