3D simulation with TCL/TK, and OpenGL?

Art Morel

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Oct 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/28/96

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Elvis Chen wrote:
>
> greetings:
>
> I am considering using TCL/TK as GUI for my master thesis. My
> thesis involves 3D simulations, and possiblely real-time animation.

I think it is an excellent environment (Tcl/Tk/Gl) to work with. I
have used the glxwin extension written by

>Michael Halle
>Spatial Imaging Group
>MIT Media Laboratory
>mha...@media.mit.edu
>

You can get it from the FAQS. I plan to modify it for opengl if
Michael Hall does not do it. I also am giving some thought to
make this glxwin extension carry over to the windows environment.
I think once you add some 3d camera viewing mechanism and image io
It is fully a great environment. I lifted some sgi trackball code
to do the 3d viewing manipulation stuff.

Good Luck,

Art Morel
Visual Technologies
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Elvis Chen

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Oct 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/28/96

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greetings:

I am considering using TCL/TK as GUI for my master thesis. My

thesis involves 3D simulations, and possiblely real-time animation. So
far, I am thinking of TCL/TK + OpenGL as a tool package rather than
OpenGL/Motif since 1) TCL/TK is scripting language, and 2) Motif isn't
free, and 3) there is a free OpenGL (Mesa) in Linux.

Can someone please comment on this approach? by 3D
simulation/animation I mean:

1) displaying 3D point clauds (or 3D mesh)
2) rotation/translation of such claud/mesh, updates itself
whenever mouse/keyboard button(s) is released
3) resizing,
4) hyper-text style of menus.

most of the simulation/animation will be written in OpenGL/C, using
TCL/TK as GUI (instead of Motif).

any input is very much appreciated.

Elvis

Randolf Schultz

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Oct 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/29/96

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Art Morel (a...@rain.org) wrote:
[...]
: You can get it from the FAQS. I plan to modify it for opengl if

: Michael Hall does not do it. I also am giving some thought to
: make this glxwin extension carry over to the windows environment.
: I think once you add some 3d camera viewing mechanism and image io
: It is fully a great environment. I lifted some sgi trackball code
: to do the 3d viewing manipulation stuff.

Ever tried Togl? (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Togl.html)

An application using Togl can be found on
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~rschultz/shellylh.html/

cu,
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RANDi (rsch...@informatik.uni-rostock.de)

Anglizismen sind out!

RHS Linux User

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Oct 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM10/31/96

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>Art Morel (a...@rain.org) wrote:
>[...]
>: You can get it from the FAQS. I plan to modify it for opengl if
>: Michael Hall does not do it. I also am giving some thought to
>: make this glxwin extension carry over to the windows environment.
>: I think once you add some 3d camera viewing mechanism and image io
>: It is fully a great environment. I lifted some sgi trackball code
>: to do the 3d viewing manipulation stuff.
>
>Ever tried Togl? (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Togl.html)

Has this Togl widget been ported to Windows NT by any chance?

If not, I may have some interest in doing that, if there is no such project
underway yet...

- Jeroen