[ICFP Compition] RayTracer with a Function Description Language

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Aug 28 12:35:07 UTC 2000


On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Rob Withers wrote:

> Good morning,
> 
> I thought I would post a quick overview of the progress made over the
> past day.  The swiki site is http://callisto.swiki.net.  Ned posted a
> PPMReaderWriter for output.  Andreas has the renderer well in order as
> you may imagine.  He is looking into the advanced functions like
> difference and intersection for solid objects.  Bijan created a grammar
> for GML which can parse their most complicated example!  ;-)   Future
> directions look like an evaluator, a class heirarchy for the scene
> objects and other elements in the environment, including operations. 
> Rendering and Writing to a file are there.  Finally, the compitition
> requires stdin as the data feed where they send the gml statementList. 
> This may mean it would be a good idea to have a headless image to do
> this.  Anybody else up for a little hacking to get this together?

Yes I want! But where's the stuff? I downloaded everything from
callisto.swiki.net, but there's no renderer yet, just a parser (how do I
call it?) ...

Also, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/icfp/task.htm is gone ... Anyone have a
copy?

-- Bert





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